On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
In almost all
cases, a stub with the basic information is better than
a loose aggregation of factoids. The problem is that well-meaning
people (and sometime less well-meaning people) come along later and
try and 'expand' what is there. I'd be in favour of locking down BLPs
once they reach a certain stage of development and requiring a very
high standard of sourcing for new additions.
These sound like sensible ideas.
Doesn't work. Since we already require a high standard for sourcing for
everything, this doesn't actually put any additional requirements on BLPs.
For some reason a lot of BLP policy is like that: "here we have the same
policy we use for everything else, but we really mean it this time". This
never works, of course.