NewYorkBrad,
How is your commenting on it better than Russavia commenting on it? I am pretty sure everybody who takes the time to join an email list like this would agree, starting an article for retaliatory reasons is an abhorrent practice. But surely you can't be claiming it doesn't happen? If it happens on our sites, and is a problem, how can mentioning it be forbidden? That doesn't seem like a wise policy to me.
I will grant that Russavia used a higher degree of snark than I would have personally chosen. But if snark is going to be against the rules around here...well, I'll put it this way -- I'll be interested to see how that transition goes.
Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Newyorkbrad newyorkbrad@gmail.com wrote:
Russavia, despite the smilie, your last comment suggests that someone would create a biography of a living person in retaliation for the fact that she wrote unflatteringly and made errors in a piece about the Wikiconference.
BLPs must never be created or edited as a form of retaliation against the article subject or misused in connection with an off-wiki dispute, nor may any suggestion of doing so be made at any time..
It is also undesirable to provide ammunition for the (sometimes, unfortunately, accurate) perception that being the subject of a Wikipedia article is something that people should fear, nor that we would, even jokingly, threaten to do create a BLP as a form of what came last year to be called "revenge editing."
Please don't make this sort of comment again.
Thanks, Newyorkbrad/IBM
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
There is the option of contacting her directly, or the chief editor of the magazine, for further comment/clarification. Or the Wikipedia way -- create a totally neutral on-project biography. ;)
Cheers,
Russavia
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