QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Thu 22nd October 2009, 10:27am)
Well, I can't make jokes about Stifle's uber-deletionist antics anymore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=321380762QUOTE(Alison)
I'm no particular fan of David Shankbone (David Miller seems much nicer. Seriously), but I don't want to see him suffering the kind of BLP-related attacks that others have had to deal with here - Alison ⤠02:39, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
That's sweet of you, Alison, but I actually do want to see him suffering the kind of BLP-related attacks that others have had to deal with. As [[David Miller]]. Until such point as he requests the thing be deleted. At which point I'd like to see him refused. (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/ohmy.gif) Thus, enlightenment. (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/evilgrin.gif) We won't get a photo of him changing his own tampon (I hope) but we'll get something.
The enlightenment may possibly come not only for him, but for the crowd (by then) committed to watching his BLP, as one of WP "in crowd" whose BLPs are specially watched.
One of the good ways to get rid of a bad policy is to ensure that it's uniformly applied. The only reason we still have BLP on Wikipedia is that people like Jimbo Wales are granted special dispensations from addition of over-inflammatory content, and people like Carolyn Doran are granted special dispensation not to appear at all. But grant enough indulgences to the in-crowd on WP, and the system will start to groan and creak. Even more than it does already. At THAT point, perhaps we can begin to come to the realization that BLP is nasty thing, period, and get rid of it altogether. We'll never do that so long as WP's present double-standards apply.