On 10/2/09, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I depends on what one does. One cannot ignore the
basic rules of BLP
any more than you can copyright, because they're requirements from the
WMF. And you can't ignore basic considerations about privacy, because
that's just as fundamental. But you can sometimes ignore a detail or
procedure connected with them if you are absolutely certain it will
help Wikipedia and not harm anything else. How we interpret the
Ken is saying the opposite: you need to sometimes ignore rules even if
the benefit of your doing so goes to a person outside Wikipedia. Ie,
currently the rule says you can ignore a Wikipedia rule to improve
Wikipedia. He's saying it should allow you to ignore a Wikipedia rule
to help someone else (or more commonly, avoid harming them).
Steve