On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:38, Scott MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > "It fails our reliable source requirement."-- geni > > Wow. Geni that's truly the remark that encapsulates exactly what's wrong > with BLPs, and the irresponsible attitude of Wikipedia. > > Nevermind our many biased articles, factual errors, and stuff written from > "reliable sources" (aka tabloid sensationalist hatchet jobs), we can dismiss > the subject trying to set our record straight because it fails our > Scriptural requirement. That's Wikipedia's myopic fundamentalism taken to > its extreme. > > Ever considered the requirements just might occasionally be screwed? > The requirements are good if people apply them properly. Self-published material by living persons is allowed in their bios, so long as -- we know they wrote it; it's not unduly self-serving; and they're talking about themselves, not others. See [[WP:SPS]] and [[WP:BLPSPS]].
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