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

[private musings]

quick bit extra - flagged revisions for BLP material is also a bit of a
no-brainer, and should be recommended by the foundation immediately as a
valuable software improvement - it's really part of point 1) (Semi 'protext'
all BLP material - curse my typo!)

cheers,

Peter
PM.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, philippe <philippe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 5:48 PM, private musings wrote:
>
> > basically there's a sensible three stage plan to follow to help drive
> > quality and minimise 'BLP' harm;
> >
> > 1) Semi-protext all 'BLP' material
> > 2) Allow an 'opt-out' for some subjects (eg. non public figures, or
> > those
> > not covered in 'dead tree sources' for example) - note this is more
> > inclusive than a simple higher threshold for notability
> > 3) 'Default to delete' in discussions about BLP material - if we can't
> > positively say that it improves the project, it's sensible and
> > responsible
> > to remove the material in my view.
>
>
> As a general rule, I think pm has given us a common-sense place to
> begin discussions about how to cleanup existing BLPs.  There will
> always be situations that don't fit within this, but as a starting
> point for guidelines, I support these.
>
> Philippe
>
>
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