[WikiEN-l] Verifiability

Thu Dec 15 16:41:03 UTC 2005

<slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote

> And yet there's no such
requirement when adding a claim about a living person that could
potentially damage them. That discrepancy suggests we have our
priorities upside down.

No libels or slurs are welcome on Wikipedia.  That said, the risk of 
blandness in dealing with live people is very real.  We _must not_ give 
people the right of approval on what WP writes about them.

Charles 