Thanks for this, but even with the amendments it sounds pretty weak. The closing text just shows how helpless we are in helping subjects when their article is under the watchful eye of some Wikipedia editor who feels that they "own" biography articles they have been watching for years. Though I support the intention behind this statement ("Treating any person who has a complaint about how they are portrayed in our projects with patience, kindness, and respect, and encouraging others to do the same"), it still offers no indication of a path forward for such subjects. I would like to know where subjects can post their complaint besides on the talk page, since putting complaints there is still a form of publication and only serves to propagate the sensitive information that subjects want removed. Also, the text coming after "People sometimes make edits or add media designed to smear others" also doesn't address the problem. There are lots of unnecessarily sensitive edits made that are not made maliciously, but if they are sourced, are practically impossible to have removed, if the "personal owner" disagrees. I guess for major TV personalities and such it may be easier because there are more people watching and editing such biographies, but in the case of marginally notable people, they have no recourse whatsoever, as far as I can see.
2013/12/11, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com>: > Thank you, Maria for passing this on, and to the Board of Trustees for > adding wording to the resolution that more clearly conveys that WMF > projects are creating content and acting as a repository for a broad range > of media that have the potential to cause harm to living people. > > Sydney Poore > User:FloNight > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:20 PM, María Sefidari <kewlshr...@yahoo.es>wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> We'd like to draw your attention to our recent amendment of the 2009 >> Biographies of Living People resolution. We have amended that resolution >> to >> refer to both text and media when considering articles or images of living >> people: >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Media_about_living_people >> >> We believe this amendment serves to clarify our original intent with this >> resolution, which is to urge the Wikimedia community to act with care when >> working with all portrayals of living people. >> >> This amended resolution was passed at the November 2013 Board meeting. >> >> For the Board of Trustees, >> >> María >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>