QUOTE(Somey @ Mon 26th May 2008, 12:36am)
Well, there you go. Efforts to unfairly slant BLP articles so as to defame and distort the facts of a person's career are "normal collegiate working" on Wikipedia.
We knew that all along, of course... It's just nice to see them admit it every once in a while!
(Though I think he meant to use the word "collegial," not "collegiate."
I feel some distress for Krimpet here, who clearly stepped on a land mine when she sought to bring the Picard biography into compliance with WP policies as she reckoned them.
Were the culture of WP as collegial and congenial as I would have liked, I have little doubt that Krimpet's edits could have gracefully concluded without fanfare or kerfuffle to bring the biography to a state of accuracy and quality that would have satisfied all but the most obtuse of POV-pushers.