On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 14 November 2012 12:04, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
As I said in that discussion, the underlying problem seems to be that we have a certain number of low-notability articles that are only (or
mainly)
edited by the subjects themselves, and the people who hate them.
Since the worst BLP I know about falls in that class, I'd have to agree with the statement, to the extent that there is a problem. On the other hand the PR issue is more about high-notability articles. No deletionist approach is a remedy to the Usmanov scenario, is it?
No; but there are articles in the PR "weight class" that can be just as problematic. The article on Vodacom for example was attacked by a white supremacist, who posted about his exploits here:
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t809859-9/#post10057604
His stuff stayed in there for months. There is no evidence that Vodacom have ever taken an interest in their article; but I am sure they have a PR agent. We are simply spread too thin to prevent this sort of thing, and often it's only the subjects themselves, or their PR agents, who try to fix the article.
Andreas