On 26 March 2012 19:11, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, David Gerard wrote: > >> For some reason a lot of BLP policy is like that: "here we have the same >>> policy we use for everything else, but we really mean it this time". >>> This >>> never works, of course. >>> >> I think that's an overstatement - it sometimes doesn't work, which is >> quite distinct from "never works". >> > > "The policy doesn't work" doesn't mean that all BLPs are bad, it just means > that they are *as* bad as they would have been without the policy. The > cases you refer to as it "working" are cases where other policies work and > these polices provide no extra benefit. >
Reading what you have written above, and then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Chris Butler_(private investigator) and other serious discussions on that page, I'm unconvinced that you actually have a point here. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
