2009/4/16 Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net>: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, James Farrar wrote: >> (b) Sanger didn't post to the list to >> improve Wikipedia; he posted here to bitch about Wikipedia and Jimbo >> Wales, not necessarily in that order. > > The same can be said of an ordinary BLP question. Most people who want to > correct BLPs about themselves don't want to improve the encyclopedia; they > just want to protect their own interests. We listen to them anyway.
But correcting a falsehood does improve the encyclopedia (even if that's not the "ordinary BLP" complainant's motivation). I don't believe Sanger truly cares how Wikipedia describes him with respect to its foundation. He just wants to bitch. There's a big difference between your "ordinary BLP question" and this case. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
