[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

[David Gerard]

2009/3/2 P. Birken <pbirken at gmail.com>:

> One of my reasons to develop Flagged Revs was an incident with blatant
> vandalism in an article about a well known german politician that
> persisted for several months until we got an email from his office.
> That is plain unacceptable. Flagged revisions work very well in these
> cases. However, flagged revisions are not the complete solution, in
> particular they do not help persistently against clever POV pushing or
> against making articles more unbiased. But: I really like the test
> proposal on en-WP to try flagged revs out on BLP articles. Turn it on
> for those as soon as possible.


As far as I can make out, the present situation on en:wp is: a
proposal was put which got 59% support. That's not a sufficiently
convincing support level. So Jimbo is currently putting together a
better proposal, with the aim of at least 2/3 support and hoping for
80% - it'll be more robust. Timeframe, er, I just asked him as well.

i.e. we're getting there! Inch by inch!


- d.