QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Sat 5th December 2009, 3:13pm)
This case illustrates better than many that Wikipedia is an
attractive nuisance due to its policy of allowing anyone to edit BLPs. It was protected too late, and scraped all over the web, no doubt, because the Foundation has not dedicated the resources necessary to adequately patrol BLPs.
Agreed. If there's a significantly better example to come up since the BLP policy was first posted of Wikipedians collectively falling down on the job, failing to protect an article for a ridiculous amount of time, and in the process showing the harsh results of their foot-dragging on Flagged Revisions and their failure to impose an opt-out policy, I haven't seen it.
(That doesn't mean there isn't one, I'm just saying I just haven't seen it.)