On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I > reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind > me." eh? > > You older Wikipedians run along now; you've had your day. The adults > are talking now - I are serious editors, this are serious website. > > This is a radical misunderstanding of what I said. This isn't an old editor vs. new editor issue. David Gerard is hardly an arrogant upstart, and Jimbo Wales (one of the original Wikipedians) surely is not. Both are firmly on the side of change with regards to retaining shoddy BLPs. It's a question of what policies would be best for the project right now. Policies that were good in 2001 no longer strike the right balance in 2010. Originally, our goal was generating content, but we now have tons of content--so much that readers are more concerned about reliability. BLP subjects are most especially concerned that we get their entries right, and our project's credibility suffers most when they are harmed. At this point in time, retaining shoddy BLPs is bad for subjects and frankly bad for Wikipedia. Cool Hand Luke _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
