[[David Gerard]], Notable NPR Pundit Options

[cookiehead]

I see that WP's David Gerard does not have a BLP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gerard

Appears as a pundit on NPR, is Jimmy Wales right-hand man (oh my, is that right hand why Jimmy went all UK?).

Notable?

[carbuncle]

I see that WP's David Gerard does not have a BLP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gerard

Appears as a pundit on NPR, is Jimmy Wales right-hand man (oh my, is that right hand why Jimmy went all UK?).

Notable?

As tempting as that might be, I think many of us here try to discourage use of WP as an attack platform.

[cookiehead]

I see that WP's David Gerard does not have a BLP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gerard

Appears as a pundit on NPR, is Jimmy Wales right-hand man (oh my, is that right hand why Jimmy went all UK?).

Notable?

As tempting as that might be, I think many of us here try to discourage use of WP as an attack platform.

If a BLP = "attack platform", then they've got a problem at WP. Are you assuming Bad Faith?


For kicks, I selected at random from the Living Persons cat, a BLP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Aaron

If this meets Notable, what doesn't? Mr Gerard has a very high profile one of the most important (as Jimmy just forced the world to learn!) websites, ever (breathless ever). I haven't looked at other WP Luminary BLP's yet, but I'd guess they all have one.

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[carbuncle]

If a BLP = "attack platform", then they've got a problem at WP. Are you assuming Bad Faith?

Yes. To both.

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[cookiehead]

If a BLP = "attack platform", then they've got a problem at WP. Are you assuming Bad Faith?

Yes. To both.

Of all the WP BLP's that would be "protected" from Bad Faith, don't you think a WP all-star spokesman and media pundit would be amongst the highest priority?

One can't even mention the subject of one's own paid speaking engagements in a "Personal" section ("Bariatric surgery is the new Prozac") of a BLP without a G7 summit occurring.

Why aren't there tougher standards for BLP "keeps" or even "adds"? You can make a new BLP and it won't be touched for weeks/months/ever.

Why aren't all BLP articles protected equally? This site is highly frequented by admins and WP cabalistas, many of whom spend most of their time in pissing contests on talk pages over minutiae...why don't they form an "attack page" (BLP) task force to go through the "Living Persons" cat? There is no evidence that there is any activity on that front, at all, on WP. This probably points to the "WP is dying" meme.