On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:14 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/1/22 Ryan Delaney <[email protected]>: > >> You probably won't be getting that evidence, since the way the policy >> is in place, the burden of proof isn't on the person removing the >> content-- it's on the person adding it. That's not just how BLP works, >> but the verifiability policy as well, and that's a Good Thing(tm). If >> people want to add content to Wikipedia, they ought to be providing >> sources for it. We're somewhat lax about enforcing that when it's >> inanimate objects, but we aren't lax about it when we're talking about >> real people. That seems to me to be the right balance. > > > It does really suck that this is trashing what are mostly likely > perfectly okay pieces that people put work into. This needs to be > acknowledged and we need to work to alleviate the suck from it. > > the_wub's list will help recover stuff, and hopefully things will > proceed in a less axe-crazy manner henceforth. >
I agree, it does suck a lot. In this case, as in so many others, the suck is a direct and inevitable result of the deletion system. Repeat after me: Pure Wiki Deletion. - causa sui _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
