[Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

[Jane Darnell]

Thanks for this, but even with the amendments it sounds pretty weak.
The closing text just shows how helpless we are in helping subjects
when their article is under the watchful eye of some Wikipedia editor
who feels that they "own" biography articles they have been watching
for years. Though I support the intention behind this statement
("Treating any person who has a complaint about how they are portrayed
in our projects with patience, kindness, and respect, and encouraging
others to do the same"), it still offers no indication of a path
forward for such subjects.  I would like to know where subjects can
post their complaint besides on the talk page, since putting
complaints there is still a form of publication and only serves to
propagate the sensitive information that subjects want removed. Also,
the text coming after "People sometimes make edits or add media
designed to smear others" also doesn't address the problem. There are
lots of unnecessarily sensitive edits made that are not made
maliciously, but if they are sourced, are practically impossible to
have removed, if the "personal owner" disagrees. I guess for major TV
personalities and such it may be easier because there are more people
watching and editing such biographies, but in the case of marginally
notable people, they have no recourse whatsoever, as far as I can see.

2013/12/11, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore at gmail.com>:
> Thank you, Maria for passing this on, and to the Board of Trustees for
> adding wording to the resolution that more clearly conveys that WMF
> projects are creating content and acting as a repository for a broad range
> of media that have the potential to cause harm to living people.
>
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:20 PM, María Sefidari <kewlshrink at yahoo.es>wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We'd like to draw your attention to our recent amendment of the 2009
>> Biographies of Living People resolution. We have amended that resolution
>> to
>> refer to both text and media when considering articles or images of living
>> people:
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Media_about_living_people
>>
>> We believe this amendment serves to clarify our original intent with this
>> resolution, which is to urge the Wikimedia community to act with care when
>> working with all portrayals of living people.
>>
>> This amended resolution was passed at the November 2013 Board meeting.
>>
>> For the Board of Trustees,
>>
>> María
>>
>>
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