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

Wed Nov 30 21:20:29 UTC 2011

Hi folks,

Sue forwarded me this thread.

The best way to get people like that taken care of is through the email
response team - there's a group of really wonderful volunteers who would
love to help out in cases like that.

You can have the person write to info-en-q at wikimedia.org (that's info,
english, quality) and the email response team will take it from there.

If there's one that's particularly bad, you might want to send it my way
and I'll try to find just the right volunteer for them, but on the whole,
the email response team is AMAZING.

info-en-q at wikimedia.org.

:)

pb
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From: ** <wheredevelsdare at hotmail.com>
Date: 27 November 2011 22:00
To: Wikipedia India Mailing List <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

 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?

Kind Regards,

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From: *Bala Jeyaraman* <sodabottle at gmail.com>
Date: 27 November 2011 22:03
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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)

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From: *Srikanth Ramakrishnan* <parakara.ghoda at gmail.com>
Date: 28 November 2011 01:28
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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,
-- 
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore

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From: ** <wheredevelsdare at hotmail.com>
Date: 28 November 2011 01:42
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 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.

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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

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From: *Vickram Crishna* <vvcrishna at radiophony.com>
Date: 28 November 2011 02:15
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+1
This is true, but it does not mean that unproven allegations form part of
acceptable content, I think. If a person is accused, for instance, in
court, that charge may be mentioned, but not giving the impression the
charge is proven. Citations will be very important in such situations.
Since only a handful of courts in India have gone online, it may be
difficult to assert charges filed in some courts.

-- 
Vickram
Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>

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From: *Bishakha Datta* <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>
Date: 28 November 2011 07:27
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Totally agree with you, Bala.

I've been cc-d on a couple of these emails and unfortunately, people who
are famous in their fields, do seem to feel they are above examination. The
attitude that sometimes comes across is this: "How dare anyone write
negatively about me!" (Regardless of the facts of the situ).

So if we whitewash negative information in these situations, knowledge and
neutrality are the first casualties.

Best
Bishakha

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