On 23 March 2012 15:06, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: <snip>
> - We need fewer biographies. > > - We need to give borderline-notable people (people like Hawkins; not MPs) > an easy opt-out. > > - We could probably benefit from making real-life name registration > mandatory for BLP editing, and hosting them on a different project, or at > the very least introducing flagged revisions for BLPs, and making the right > to approve BLP changes one that requires familiarity with BLP policy, and a > commitment to uphold it. > > - We need to abandon ADAM and make sure, somehow, that biographies are fair > and balanced. We can't do that with the amount of biographies we currently > have. > > I think a serious "position paper" on BLP is possible. There are several aspects: * We are currently not very good at recognising when biographical information is "indiscriminate" (see [[WP:INDISCRIMINATE<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE>]]). We could get better at that, as a way of addressing what Andreas is calling ADAM. *We can certainly look at special notability guidelines for classes of individuals (e.g. politicians, employees of the media, entertainers, sportspeople, reality TV stars). Some divide-and-conquer to understand the more problematic areas in their own terms would be good. *We are currently lousy at judging "ephemeral notability", and issues around it seem to be classic time-sinks. There is a bigger picture here, and digging around in older biographical dictionaries can help to explain what is going on. *Certainly extending control of revisions to all BLP pages is an option to consider; naturally this is a major step requiring wide community support, and that in turn probably requires a reasonable amount of preparation, not phrased in too much immoderate language. *Tools and techniques. I'm a fan of the idea of using "Related changes" on chunks of BLP, so that patrolling say 1% at a time becomes easier. Hiving off BLP into its own community isn't a solution that is clearly going to work, let's say. Technical concentration on the material, on the other hand, might do quite a lot to highlight the difficult cases. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
