On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:07 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/18 Kat Walsh <[email protected]>: > >> 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. > > > Mmm. BLPs became special (a) in the wake of the Siegenthaler foulup > (b) when we became likely the top Google hit on any given > minorly-noteworthy person's name who has an article or is *mentioned > in* an article. > > But yeah, it can apply to other sorts of articles. The Arbitration > Committee has advised that articles on companies can need similar > caution applied, particularly when you have editors who confuse an > encyclopedia with investigative journalism. (We have Wikinews for > original journalism!)
Oh, I agree that everyone became aware that articles on living people needed special handling around then. It's just that people do not sufficiently appreciate that they are only the most easily-identifiable subset of the articles requiring that same care. -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
