There are quite a number of people who like tinkering with birth years for the hell of it. it's one of the most common forms of vandalism. A good deal of the present BLP problem is the difficulty of preventing this on the more obscure articles. It would be counterproductive to have a policy to accept unsourced corrections of things like that, uncontroversial though they may seem.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG >>> >>> 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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
