On 10/2/09, David Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Ken is saying the opposite: you need to sometimes ignore rules even if the benefit of your doing so goes to a person outside Wikipedia. Ie, currently the rule says you can ignore a Wikipedia rule to improve Wikipedia. He's saying it should allow you to ignore a Wikipedia rule to help someone else (or more commonly, avoid harming them). Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
