Arb Com at this point seems very willing to encourage arbitrary action by administrators, when we really need to be be moving in the opposite direction, of requiring greater admin responsibility and care. In this case, care in deleting, to make sure that the material is not sourceable. The mass deletions were some of them done without the least attention to the actual contents of the article and the likeliness of easy sourcing, and arb com is currently saying that this does not matter. and that our prior rule that this sort of deletion only applied to deleterious material has been superseded, on the basis that there might be something hidden--a proposition for which there is not a single example.
What we do need is a sensible way of dealing with the problem in a way that encourages the preservation of what content can be preserved, and this is being discussed at the current RfC for BLP. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Emily Monroe <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Community consensus" isn't a valid reason to violate BLP. en:wp is >> a top-5 website of massive impact, not a personal playground >> enjoying something akin to parliamentary privilege 'cos it says so. > > True. > > Emily > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:50 AM, David Gerard wrote: > >> 2010/1/21 Emily Monroe <[email protected]>: >> >>> As I understand it, a bunch of adminstrators deleted a bunch of >>> articles that they felt violated BLP aganist community consensus. >> >> >> "Community consensus" isn't a valid reason to violate BLP. en:wp is a >> top-5 website of massive impact, not a personal playground enjoying >> something akin to parliamentary privilege 'cos it says so. >> >> >> - d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
