Thanks for that link, Phoebe!
I am concerned about the issue surrounding the comment the real BLP
problems happen when heavyweight (in edit count terms) Wikipedia users
swing their weight around
Maybe such Wikipedians have a problem with the BLP person in real
life, or is closely related to some
Hi Jane,
I am concerned about the issue surrounding the comment the real BLP
problems happen when heavyweight (in edit count terms) Wikipedia users
swing their weight around
I think the problem is that if you ask ten different people about the
reason why we have BLP problems, you'll get ten
On 14 December 2013 00:30, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't make a comment; I requested information:
Please also provide a link to the consultation you carried out
with the community, before making this change. I seem to have
missed it.
Oddly, I seem to have
Well I don't see any problem with starting off by taking a survey
among OTRS users, or in trying to collect data to classify problems
that are reported. Once we know what the popular problems are, can
we better help stop the flow of unwanted trash-talking on BLP's.
I think the underbelly that we
Andy Mabbett wrote:
Indeed there have. But until a widely-advertised consultation is held
(advertised in the manner of the recent discussion on logos and
branding), we wont know the views of the community at large, rather
than those who have an axe to grind.
Your logic here is broken. There are
On 14 December 2013 15:55, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Andy Mabbett wrote:
until a widely-advertised consultation is held
(advertised in the manner of the recent discussion on logos and
branding), we wont know the views of the community at large, rather
than those who have an axe to
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Craig Franklin
cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote:
Hi Jane,
I am concerned about the issue surrounding the comment the real BLP
problems happen when heavyweight (in edit count terms) Wikipedia users
swing their weight around
I think the problem is that if you
Is there a discussion happening on Commons somewhere about the
implications of this resolution? - John Vandenberg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Resolution:Media_about_living_people
Jee
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:24 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat,
And an application at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Contact_us/Problems#Suggested_change
Jee
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Jeevan Jose jkadav...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a discussion happening on Commons somewhere about the
implications of this resolution? - John
Thanks Jee for those links. It strikes me as odd that on a
Commons:Contact us page there is no link to any explanation about how
it all works. In my (limited!) experience of helping BLP subjects, it
has helped them enormously just to talk about how Wikipedia works.
Sometimes they are certain that
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:55 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Your logic here is broken. There are certainly times to have widely
advertised discussions, but doing so is not free: they often require
creating and deploying banners (with an associated increased risk of
banner blindness),
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:54 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
The 2009 resolution on biographies of living people was about
identifiable people, given they were the subject of a biography. This
new 'media about living people' resolution doesn't make any such
distinction for media,
On 14.12.2013 21:28, phoebe ayers wrote:
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:54 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi John,
I think this is an interesting point, but I'm not entirely sure I
follow don't we always worry about verifiability for images? We
certainly try to ensure that
On 15 December 2013 02:54, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Craig Franklin
cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote:
Hi Jane,
I am concerned about the issue surrounding the comment the real BLP
problems happen when heavyweight (in edit count terms)
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