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> New discussion started on BLP, The Real Thing, or more wikidrama?
Daniel Brandt
post Mon 23rd April 2007, 7:46pm
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A discussion has opened on possible changes in BLP that would tilt AfDs for BLPs in the direction of "delete" as the default, instead of "keep."

I suspect that something along these lines will be implemented as official policy within the next few weeks. I also predict that it will be sufficiently watered down so that the new AfD on my bio will be a close one. The cabal will want my bio deleted — I think they already feel this way — and will unceremoniously squish the next DennyColt who shows up to frontload the process. With the emails flying behind the scenes, there is a good chance that my bio will get deleted and salted.

However, the policy itself will represent only a minor improvement. I may decide that while it barely got my bio deleted, it won't be of much help to any future BLP victims, and I'll be tempted to file a lawsuit anyway. The damages I'll claim have to do with the fact that it took me 19 months of hard work to get my bio taken down, and I took a lot of abuse along the way. (Just today, for example, David Gerard called me a "sociopath.")

If my bio is deleted, it would forestall an appeal by me to the Foundation Board of Trustees, but it won't necessarily preclude a lawsuit by me against Jimbo and the Foundation.
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Jonny Cache
post Thu 3rd May 2007, 1:04pm
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Saint Stephen ?

I think that a better model for Daniel's contemplation might be found here:

William Barrett Travis, Letter from the Alamo, 24 Feb 1836

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Daniel Brandt   New discussion started on BLP   Mon 23rd April 2007, 7:46pm
Somey   It looks like you'll probably have to sue anyw...   Mon 23rd April 2007, 9:02pm
JTM   A discussion has opened on possible changes in BL...   Mon 23rd April 2007, 9:12pm
GlassBeadGame   Any revision will be fundamentally flawed because ...   Mon 23rd April 2007, 9:20pm
Daniel Brandt   Any revision will be fundamentally flawed because...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 5:47am
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='29269' date='Mo...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 12:42pm
Joseph100   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='29269' date='M...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 3:11pm
Daniel Brandt   I think the key point is whether the new BLP polic...   Mon 23rd April 2007, 10:12pm
SqueakBox   I think the key point is whether the new BLP poli...   Tue 24th April 2007, 2:30am
Somey   The reason only a small number are inititated by t...   Tue 24th April 2007, 3:04am
BobbyBombastic   hi dan! http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/w...   Tue 24th April 2007, 3:35am
Daniel Brandt   hi dan! [url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/piper...   Tue 24th April 2007, 3:46am
GlassBeadGame   hi dan! http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/...   Tue 24th April 2007, 3:59am
Somey   Good ol' Mr. T! More irrational, reactiona...   Tue 24th April 2007, 3:48am
michael   http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikie...ril/0...   Tue 24th April 2007, 4:39am
Somey   http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikie...ril/0...   Tue 24th April 2007, 6:52am
GlassBeadGame   Pass the conch shell. It once again Lord of the F...   Tue 24th April 2007, 2:07pm
Joseph100   Pass the conch shell. It once again Lord of the ...   Tue 24th April 2007, 11:10pm
Joseph100   Here is the place the process server should go fir...   Wed 25th April 2007, 5:02am
GlassBeadGame   Any rate, again, it's a complete waste of ti...   Wed 25th April 2007, 5:34am
Jonny Cache   [b][i]candy-strippers U wish !!! J...   Wed 2nd May 2007, 10:26pm
GlassBeadGame   [b][i]candy-strippers U wish !!! ...   Wed 2nd May 2007, 10:32pm
BobbyBombastic   is this their new attorney? :lol:   Tue 24th April 2007, 9:01pm
GlassBeadGame   Not bad tropical fruit guy.   Thu 26th April 2007, 2:43am
gomi   There is quite a bit of amusing mudslinging going ...   Wed 2nd May 2007, 10:20pm
mephistophilis   There is quite a bit of amusing mudslinging going...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 8:03am
Somey   He should know that you don't piss off jay and...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 8:58am
Somey   And here, of course, is the epitome of pure, inhum...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 9:10am
SqueakBox   And here, of course, is the epitome of pure, inhu...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 4:45pm
JohnA   As I've said before, Wikipedia is not going to...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 11:41am
Daniel Brandt   RE: New discussion started on BLP   Thu 3rd May 2007, 12:01pm
Jonny Cache   As others have already correctly observed, the f...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 12:38pm
Daniel Brandt   I just got a response from Bauder. This is all it ...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 3:01pm
Somey   On April 26 I put Hive2 back up. (Hivemind, the ot...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 5:03pm
SqueakBox   On April 26 I put Hive2 back up. (Hivemind, the o...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 5:23pm
Daniel Brandt   To be fair, I think they've made it clear eno...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 5:27pm
SqueakBox   Is this sort of thinking non-thinking found in Obj...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 5:33pm
Somey   Wikipedia is about as far from Ayn Rand's thin...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 7:44pm
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='Daniel Brandt' post='30253' date='Th...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 8:55pm
BobbyBombastic   Jimbo certainly seems to believe in dualism. One ...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 9:01pm
Robster   What say ye, members of the jury? Should I put hi...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 5:58pm
Jonny Cache   D&D ? Dungeons & Dragons ? Jonny B)   Thu 3rd May 2007, 3:14pm
Joseph100   D&D ? Dungeons & Dragons ? Jonny B) D...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 3:26pm
Skyrocket   I dream of the day when billboards, telephone book...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 3:41pm
thekohser   I dream of the day when billboards, telephone boo...   Thu 3rd May 2007, 5:36pm


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