Among issues difficult to resolve while respecting the limitations of the BLP policy, enter the article about a world-class athlete whose gender has recently been questioned. The problem is this: can the article discuss the supposed results of the tests and its implications, as widely reported, without violating the BLP policy? The information is clearly personal and very sensitive, and the official results have not yet been released (and they may not be). In normal circumstances, that would argue strongly against including speculation. The perverse effect in this case, though, is that details that have become common knowledge are entirely missing from our article.
I think this might be one situation where our duty of care in biographies of living people is being overzealously observed, but its definitely a gray area and I'm not at all certain. It's jarring for me to see some obviously relevant information excluded from the article, particularly when its been reported in most major news venues in the world, but I do understand the desire to be above the gross speculation found in some outlets. Thoughts? Have we been so successful at permeating the community with care for BLPs that we need to start emphasizing the limits of that care more clearly? Nathan -- Your donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
