On 24 March 2012 16:23, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do think we have a problem with writing about things too soon, but > it isn't so extreme that we should wait until people are retired or > dead to write about them. I did have a policy proposal prepared a few > years ago that I never really proposed because I thought it was too > unlikely to be successful. It was to set a limit on how recent > something can be and still appear on Wikipedia. I can't remember what > the limit I was going to propose was, but it was about a month - if > something happened less than a month ago, don't write about it on > Wikipedia. Write about it on Wikinews and either link to it from an > existing Wikipedia article or create a redirect to it if the subject > is new or newly notable. Then, after a month once everything has > settled down, we can write a decent article (as opposed to one where > every paragraph starts "As of"). You're not going to get that through for general events (natural disasters or revolutions), because they've long been heralded as one of en:wp's great strengths. It *might* be swingable in the case of BLPs. The question then, of course, is: in a quickly-written article about a disaster or a revolution, are you allowed to name anyone who's alive? And you *know* there are Wikipedia rules lawyers who will say "no" and try to enforce it. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
