On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 14 November 2012 12:04, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > As I said in that discussion, the underlying problem seems to be that we > > have a certain number of low-notability articles that are only (or > mainly) > > edited by the subjects themselves, and the people who hate them. > > Since the worst BLP I know about falls in that class, I'd have to > agree with the statement, to the extent that there is a problem. On > the other hand the PR issue is more about high-notability articles. No > deletionist approach is a remedy to the Usmanov scenario, is it? No; but there are articles in the PR "weight class" that can be just as problematic. The article on Vodacom for example was attacked by a white supremacist, who posted about his exploits here: http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t809859-9/#post10057604 His stuff stayed in there for months. There is no evidence that Vodacom have ever taken an interest in their article; but I am sure they have a PR agent. We are simply spread too thin to prevent this sort of thing, and often it's only the subjects themselves, or their PR agents, who try to fix the article. Andreas
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