On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM, doc <doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
<snip> > Our current vandalism RCP system regularly screws up with BLP. It > reverts people who blank libels - and seldom even casts a glance at the > current state of any article. You think giving these same people more > work will solve the subtler BLP problem? Agreed. And even obvious problems are missed. Have a look at the history of this article for examples where what I presume are Recent Change Patrollers saving revisions of an article that was clearly still in a vandalised state. Classic example of blind reversion that only looked at the current vandalism being removed, not the earlier history or the state the article is being reverted to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Kate_Murray_-_article_history_and_uncaught_vandalism_.2B_massive_number_of_attack_edits_by_IPs [Something about a lighthouse.] In case anyone is interested, a filter has been set up to detect removal of the category "Living people". That was how I came across the edit above. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=117 Hopefully it can be tweaked to distinguish between removal and replacement with a death category. And then people can check edits made claiming someone has died, and make sure reliable sources have been provided for such claims. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l