On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 20:19, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
It is not up to us to decide that something is private. If it's been
published, then it is public.
If it's been published in a reliable source, than it's useable in our project.
But not everything that's usable has to be used.
Our BLP policy is pretty solid, and the editors that enforce it are pretty
good at keeping out the crap :) We can always improve it, of course. And
there are never enough BLP editors. (There are probably about 5 or 6 that
specialise heavily in such content).
Most of the outstanding issues are
On 5/20/11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Please mail User:Oversight with any such instance you are aware of. We do
suppress any mention of a superinjunction, as the assertion that there is
embarrassing personal information sufficient to support issuance of a
superinjunction is
On 21 May 2011 14:39, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any project which allows usernames such as Administrator,
Bureaucrat, Oversight or Steward? Isn't that confused and probably not
allowed? Or which project allows a user name for more than one person?
en:wp has
Marco Chiesa wrote:
Is there any project which allows usernames such as Administrator,
Bureaucrat, Oversight or Steward? Isn't that confused and probably not
allowed? Or which project allows a user name for more than one person?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Title_blacklist prohibits those
Sarah wrote:
I'm increasingly wondering whether we should be hosting any BLPs, because
these are often difficult decisions to make -- at which point there is
legitimate public interest in a person's private life -- and they can't be
reached thoughtfully in an open-editing environment.
I think
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 14:33, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Sarah wrote:
I'm increasingly wondering whether we should be hosting any BLPs, because
these are often difficult decisions to make -- at which point there is
legitimate public interest in a person's private life -- and they
Sarah wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 14:33, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I think anyone who has been in the BLP trenches has had the same thought.
The reality is that an encyclopedia without a Barack Obama article or a
Nelson Mandela article really isn't a general reference
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 15:14, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Sarah wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 14:33, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I think anyone who has been in the BLP trenches has had the same thought.
The reality is that an encyclopedia without a Barack Obama article or a
On 21 May 2011 22:14, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
That sounds vaguely similar to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP_problem#Dead_tree_standard.
Let me know if you start a Requests for comment/discussion about this. I'd
be interested, as would a number of other list
MZMcBride, 21/05/2011 22:25:
Marco Chiesa wrote:
Is there any project which allows usernames such as Administrator,
Bureaucrat, Oversight or Steward? Isn't that confused and probably not
allowed? Or which project allows a user name for more than one person?
On 21 May 2011 17:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
MZMcBride, 21/05/2011 22:25:
Marco Chiesa wrote:
Is there any project which allows usernames such as Administrator,
Bureaucrat, Oversight or Steward? Isn't that confused and probably not
allowed? Or which project allows
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 16:01, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
As to the comments from MZMcBride and Sarah, I would like to see a
significantly higher minimal level of notability for BLPs. In the past few
years of working with the Arbitration Committee, I have seen literally
thousands of
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
For those who deal with the BLP queue on OTRS, how serious is the
problem of BLP attack pages, whether rising to the level of defamation
or not?
I know the problem exists -- anyone who edits can see it -- but I'd be
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
For those who deal with the BLP queue on OTRS, how serious is the
problem of BLP attack pages, whether rising to the level of defamation
or not?
I know the problem exists -- anyone who edits can see it -- but I'd be
Hello,
I found an email today from someone who still cares to keep me updated
about what happens on the English Wikipedia's corridors. Since my name
is mentioned in the discussion, he thought I'd be interested in this.
There is a user on the English language Wikipedia who calls himself
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Dror Kamir dqa...@bezeqint.net wrote:
Hello,
I found an email today from someone who still cares to keep me updated
about what happens on the English Wikipedia's corridors. Since my name
is mentioned in the discussion, he thought I'd be interested in this.
I am not going to act as if this is a trial against me. If this is a
trial, then I have every right to know who accuses me and on what
ground. Currently what we have here is a WP user who says he has private
information about me and about other users, allegedly proving we are the
same person
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