---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <wjhon...@aol.com> Date: 18 November 2010 18:51 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age To: risker...@gmail.com
In a message dated 11/18/2010 3:50:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, risker...@gmail.com writes: "We are extraordinarily ineffective at providing neutral, well-written, relatively complete and well-referenced articles about businesses and individuals - even as of this writing we have tens of thousands of unreferenced and poorly referenced BLPs - and equally bad at maintaining and updating them. I find that mixing to be confusing. I don't think it's useful to talk about living people and businesses together in the same section. Or are you claiming that BLP applies to "living businesses" as well I am deliberately including both of these groups because (a) they are the target audience for the WikipediaExperts group discussed in this thread and (b) they are the two groups who most frequently complain about poor quality articles and errors when they are the subject of an article. While I don't equate biographical articles with those involving businesses, a poor quality article is still a poor quality article, and I don't see why we should consider it "less serious" just because it's about a business and not a person. Risker/Anne Note: I believe you intended to send this to the entire list, WJhonson; if I am incorrect, please accept my apologies. R _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
