BLP is a good idea and we got it for good reasons. These recent developments, however, forget that we are *an encyclopedia*. It's into barking mad territory.
No. We will not go to removing bios on demand on my watch. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Apr 4, 2012, at 5:27, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed a thread on Jimbo's talk page that is partly related to this. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#A_radical_idea.3B_BLP_opt-out_for_all > > Tarc suggested: > > "Any living person, subject to identity verification via OTRS, may > request the deletion of their article. No discussion, no AfD, just > *poof*. In its place is a simple template explaining why there is no > longer an article there, and a pointer to where the reader can find > information on the subject, a link similar to Template:Find sources at > the top of every AfD." > > What people there seem to be missing is that the template would > explicitly say "article removed at subject's request". The point being > that this could well result in a big PR stink for either Wikipedia > ("the article was rubbish and rightly removed") or for the subject > ("they are (wrongly) trying to control what is said about them"). > > [This is why it relates to the topic of this thread] > > This is why such a proposal might actually work. > > I am rather surprised at why some people miss that this is about > living people though. BWilkins said: > > "You can't very well tear out "Mussolini" from every copy of EB ever > printed, can you?" > > Obviously, for those who are dead, this proposed policy would no > longer apply, and you default back to the usual arguments about > notability and so on. And I still maintain that notability cannot be > properly assessed until someone's life or career has finished. The > whole "notability is not temporary" thing needs serious > re-examination. > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
