On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Ken Arromdee<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 [email protected] wrote: >> "Protecting people" is really very broad isn't it? >> >> How about "If the publication of certain information on a subject would >> lead a reasonable person to believe that it poses a credible threat to the >> subject's life." >> Much narrower. > > For IAR, it's also much too long. You've tripled its length. > > IAR currently reads: > > If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it. > > We just need to phrase it so that you can ignore rules for purposes other > than improving or maintaining Wikipedia. Exact details aren't needed, as > long as that restriction is removed.
I think that the particular phrased wording works just fine as an overriding preamble to BLP, but as Ken states not well with IAR. Possibly a new policy, but it would fit into BLP just fine. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
