2009/4/22 <[email protected]>: > In a message dated 4/22/2009 11:31:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes:
>> But if you're going to go that route, that means that once you have >> verified >> their identity, you should indeed let them fix the incorrect claim in >> their >> biography. >> That's not what you're saying. You're arguing for a policy that says that >> someone without a source can't correct errors about himself *at >> all*--whether >> you looked up the official site for his radio station or not. Verifying >> his >> identity is, in fact, completely irrelevant to this policy.>> > The sole place where the subject may have a special position, is in > providing a response to a well-sourced negative statement. If we have a > statement > like "Britney Spears stabbed her husband and was arrested" (L.A. Times, 12 > Oct 2007), then she is quite welcome to provide an alternate version such as > "she stabbed him, but it was with a nail file and the skin wasn't even > broken, he's just a big cry baby bitch." (Britneyspears.com, "Why I was > arrested > last week") > However, this does not mean that we remove the L A Times reference. That > would be whitewashing the article. We are here to provide the reading public > with the most consistent, neutral, inclusive view of pop culture. That > isn't simply the glamour magazines, it has to include as well the news > articles > that have negative material. I think at this point you're arguing past each other. Neither of you actually works to the ridiculously extreme straw-man standards you ascribe to each other. WP:BLP may be summarised as "we're here to write an encyclopedia, but have to be very careful not to be dicks about it." - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
