On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 wjhon...@aol.com wrote: >>>If they are not willing to type two sentences on an official >>>site, but ARE willing to type a hundred in-project, than I submit it's >>>*highly* unlikely to be the person in question in the first place. >>> >>>IF they write a blog where they complain about process, that is simply >>>more free publicity for us. There is no such thing as bad publicity. >> >> This is exactly what's wrong with BLP. We care more about the process than >> we do about the people. >> >> If someone says that a relatively uncontroversial fact in an article about >> themselves is wrong, we should fix it. If our process says we shouldn't >> listen to them, then we need to fix both the process and the article. >> >> If you really doubt that the person themselves is sending you a correction, >> then fine. But that's only good if you really have some reason to doubt it's >> them. Saying "what if it isn't them" and then stretching it to cover all >> situations whether you believe it's them or not is just elevating process >> above people. > > And when you get two people contacting you, both claiming to be the same > person?
It does actually happen, with common names and articles that combine details of two people... 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
