[Wikimediaindia-l] People of stature unhappy with own articles

[wheredevelsdare at hotmail.com]

The issues were of information added without RS, biased information and language that was encyclopedic. The issue was sorted but I thought there may be a formal process - thanks to Soda Bottle for providing the link.

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:58:10 +0530
From: parakara.ghoda at gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] People of stature unhappy with own articles

WhereDevilsDare,
As Bala pointed out, pages have to be neutral.Example:Look at any Politician's page, it's always Pro-them, rarely is it balanced.We need to have things neutral.
If these guys get to decide what goes on their page, it'll be a Conflict of Interest.Even a simple controversy against a person, if added, shouldn't be removed.Regards,


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabottle at gmail.com> wrote:

Yes there is. direct them to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AUTOPROB#Problems_in_an_article_about_you


But they shouldn't be expecting wikipedia to do a whitewashing / PR fluff job on it. Sometimes, if they are actually trying to remove negative material about them  (and there is a ton of it in RS) it leads to a backlash and more gets added to the article. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striesand_effect)




On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:30 AM,  <wheredevelsdare at hotmail.com> wrote:







Hiya,

Me and a couple of others have been contacted by a couple of people of stature having Wikipedia articles about themselves recently about the articles having derogatory and inaccurate information about them. Is there any procedure set which such people can follow to have an admin look into their page?



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