Re: Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

On 31 Mar 2007 at 18:16, Jimmy Wales <jwaleswikia.com> wrote:

> geni wrote:
> > On 3/30/07, Jimmy Wales <jwaleswikia.com> wrote:
> >> geni wrote:
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:V
illage_pump_%28news%29#Robert_Mugabe.27s_daughter_-_news_sto
ry_originating_from_Wikipedia.3F
> >> So that's the best example I have seen in a
while.
> > 
> > BLP won't solve that problem.
> 
> This is exactly the kind of negative information
without valid sources 
> that I am strongly encouraging people to remove on
sight.  So, except 
> for unrealistic definitions of the word
"solve", I think BLP does in 
> fact help a great deal.

Saying that somebody's daughter is attending a prestigious 
educational institution isn't obviously, intrinsically,
negative, 
without more context about the complex political issues
involved in 
this case.  And determining that the sources given here are
invalid 
takes a bit of (unoriginal?) research.  Thus, this is the
sort of 
thing that can easily survive a superficial look, even under
a regime 
requiring strict sourcing of negative information on living
persons.


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