On 12/15/05, charles matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
<slimvirgin(a)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
Showing them what we write about them and then listening to their
response wouldn't be such a bad idea, though.
Unsubstantiated rumors aren't welcome on Wikipedia either. We're lax
about it in some cases, but in terms of potentially damaging
information we shouldn't be. I'd respond to slimvirgin that
Wikipedia:Verifiability already gives editors the power to move
unsubstantiated information to the talk page (at least after a good
faith effort to locate a source). We just haven't been exercising
that power as often as we should.
Anthony