I depends on what one does. One cannot ignore the basic rules of BLP any more than you can copyright, because they're requirements from the WMF. And you can't ignore basic considerations about privacy, because that's just as fundamental. But you can sometimes ignore a detail or procedure connected with them if you are absolutely certain it will help Wikipedia and not harm anything else. How we interpret the rules is under the control of the community, but we need to be responsible about it, and these are areas where we need to be particularly cautious.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/2/09, Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, the last time I ran into this was the way IAR is worded. For such a >> short rule it has a huge flaw: it says you can only ignore rules for the >> purpose of improving or maintaining the encyclopedia. The result is people >> constantly claiming that you can't ignore rules for BLP or privacy concerns, >> since helping the BLP subject is not a form of improving the encyclopedia. > > That's an interesting point. Perhaps its scope should be widened. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
