On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/18 Cathy Edwards <[email protected]>: > >> I think I have a good idea why BLP are a hot topic of debate in this >> area, > > > It's because they're special, because they can cause (and have > caused) damage to people in a way that other articles can't. (And the > same applies to material about living people in other articles.) > > Basically, we don't have the luxury of eventualism with biographical > material about living people - it has to satisfy the standard rules > (neutrality, verifiability, no original research) but we can't have a > bad article and wait for it to be better - it has to be not-awful at > any given time. So people get really harsh on reference quality, > whether a given incident is noteworthy, etc. And that extends to even > having an article at all - for many subjects, having a Wikipedia > article can be a curse.
This is about 95% of the truth, actually. Other articles *can* cause harm in exactly the same way, but are not as obvious or attractive a target. -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en Wikimedia, Press: [email protected] * Personal: [email protected] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:Mindspillage mindspillage or mind|wandering on irc.freenode.net * email for phone _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
