[Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

Tue Mar 15 07:31:33 UTC 2011

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> On 03/14/11 5:41 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> > So that would mean exporting all BLPs to a completely separate project,
> like
> > Commons, which hosts and edits these BLPs, which are then available as
> read-
> > only pages in Wikipedia. The existing BLPs in Wikipedia would be deleted,
> > and any BLPs created in Wikipedia would be instantly deleted, or moved to
> > the other project if they show promise.
>
> Taking that one step further, when the subject of one of these
> biographies dies the article would need to move back; the proper article
> history would also need to move.  Moves would also involve making sure
> that a lot of links are repaired.
>
> Ec
>
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That reiterates my point: BLP policy /does not only apply to the deceased/.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP#Deceased

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