2009/9/21 Ray Saintonge <[email protected]>: > The distinction to be made is between information about a person, and > popularly reported claims about the person. It needs to be made clear > that reporting about a controversy is not identical to reporting about > the person. It's disingenuous to pretend that a very public controversy > doesn't exist. Rather than suppressing anything about the controversy we > would do better to find the appropriate language for discussing it > neutrally. > > It's much easier to permeate a community with a series of doctrinaire > rules than with a grasp of the underlying principles.
The key point with that, in general, is "undue weight" - it is easy to give too much weight to a controversy. In this case, though, the controversy is so high profile and it is pretty much the only thing the public know about this person that the due weight is very high. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
