2009/7/23 Ken Arromdee <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, David Gerard wrote:
>> A good example is the death of Michael Jackson, where the page was >> locked and the discussion was fast and furious. Being a sensitive BLP >> (at the time), that was IMO just the right way to do it. Admins >> stepping in and saying "no, this is a severe BLP hazard, we have to >> do this right." > I would think that a BLP ceases to be a BLP once the person dies. I suppose > there could still be problems for other living people who are mentioned on > the page, but the main BLP problem would seem to be gone (unless you want to > extend BLP to the recently dead). In this case it was while it was still uncertain that he was really dead. Keeping questionable death reports out of a BLP is important, particularly as enough people went to Wikipedia first to knock the servers over ... - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
