> ---------- 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
An unsuccessful attempt was made to extent the principles of BLP to organizations at the time BLP was adopted. The same liability problems exist. Fred Bauder _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
