> On Tue, 26 May 2009, Fred Bauder wrote: >> You're preaching to the choir. Often when we want to do the right >> thing, >> we are confronted with a demand for a rule, or presented with one, >> typically "no censorship". There is no substitute for doing what is >> appropriate in the circumstances. Trying to codify that principle is >> futile, although Ignore all rules comes close. > > IAR is particularly subject to wikilawyering in this situation. It says > that > it applies when a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining > Wikipedia. > This can be easily interpreted to mean that any use of IAR must improve > Wikipedia itself, and that considerations outside Wikipedia (such as BLP > and other issues related to avoiding harm) are ineligible for IAR. >
Trying to do Biographies of living persons without a rule proved futile; so a written policy was created. We still don't have a corresponding policy for organizations. The underlying principle is don't hang an article on scraps of negative information, but you could write a book on the biographies on Wikipedia, and an even more interesting book if you collected all the half-cocked material we have excluded for one reason or another. Not a book you would want to publish or distribute in the UK, however. Fred Bauder _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
