Jimbo has never been an active editor. The BLPs aren't being deleted for being shoddy, they're being deleted for not having references.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Cool Hand Luke < failure.to.communic...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I > > reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind > > me." eh? > > > > You older Wikipedians run along now; you've had your day. The adults > > are talking now - I are serious editors, this are serious website. > > > > > > This is a radical misunderstanding of what I said. This isn't an old > editor > vs. new editor issue. David Gerard is hardly an arrogant upstart, and > Jimbo > Wales (one of the original Wikipedians) surely is not. Both are firmly on > the side of change with regards to retaining shoddy BLPs. > > It's a question of what policies would be best for the project right now. > Policies that were good in 2001 no longer strike the right balance in 2010. > Originally, our goal was generating content, but we now have tons of > content--so much that readers are more concerned about reliability. BLP > subjects are most especially concerned that we get their entries right, and > our project's credibility suffers most when they are harmed. At this point > in time, retaining shoddy BLPs is bad for subjects and frankly bad for > Wikipedia. > > Cool Hand Luke > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l