[Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: Davos

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia-inc.com
Thu Feb 19 07:01:03 UTC 2009


Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> And of course both things happen all the time, simultaneously.
> What you need to remember is that all the people who are
> secretly satisfied their article is remarkably fair to them, or
> even greatly relieved how merciful their article is about their
> various foibles; never mind those who won't say publicly they
> think their article is even far too laudatory ... well, those
> people won't be the first in line to talk about it to you, will
> they. Try to focus on that; when you get in those situations.

Quite often, people do tell me that their article is good.  I'm always 
pleased to hear that.

I think a deeper point is that there are a lot of very problematic BLP's 
on Wikipedia, and this is an ongoing problem that we all have to be very 
serious about.



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