2009/3/2 Anthony <[email protected]>: >> Flagged Revs is an excellent way of dealing with vandalism to BLPs, >> technical solutions to more subtle problems are a little trickier. >> Flagged Revs could be used with addition levels - a "free of >> vandalism" level and a "well balanced, fact-checked and free of >> anything remotely libellous" level. Two separate levels are necessary >> since the 2nd takes far too long to be a practical vandal fighting >> tool - I'm not sure which level would be shown by default to whom, >> that needs to be worked out. >> > > Another good idea, but how would an article be accepted as "well balanced"? > You just can't write about a topic which has any level of controversy and > come up with an article which everyone will agree is "well balanced". No > matter what you write, someone is going to have a problem with it, so > marking an article as "well balanced" is more likely to increase the > complaints rather than reduce them. I think Citizendium's "approved > articles" is about the best you can do in this type of situation, and their > articles certainly aren't "well balanced".
Of course, the terms need to be well defined, I was being intentionally vague about that part because it requires significant discussion and debate that I don't think we want to get into now. Citizendium's "approved articles" are the equivalent of (not exactly the same as, though) our "featured articles" - we don't want to require all BLPs to be featured, that would never work! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
