Just a fine example of how WP fails to control BLPs, especially when breaking news causes disagreement.
The BLP for Arizona representative Gabrielle Giffords just sat there for years, attracting a few edits a month,
except for the days right after last November's election, when a single editor posted conflicting info about her very close election.
That eventually faded out.
Until today. Giffords was shot in Tucson. A sad and disgusting development.
Instantly her BLP became a madhouse. Because early news reports did not agree about Giffords' fate,
people editwarred "she's dead" or "she's not dead" back and forth.
Slp1 finally full-protected it.
Did the editwarring end? NO. Instead, administrators and rollbackers continued the editwarring--
being the only people with access to the article. At least one of them apologized. The others did not.
Evil Saltine unprotects it.
Sarek reprotects it.
Geni unprotects it again.
Jimbo weighs in.
SlimVirgin reprotects it.
In short, it looked like a typical trivial, chickenshit, pointless editwar over POV content.
Except that for more than 2 hours, all the warriors were administrators and rollbackers.
FT2, Rambling Man, GageSkidmore, KimChee, various others: take a bow, you assholes!
And for extra lulz: similar crap was occurring around the BLP for judge John McCarthy Roll, who was killed in the same incident.
Editorializing: a real encyclopedia would immediately protect articles involving contentious breaking news.
But Wikipedia isn't an "encyclopedia", it's a playground for ADHD trolls. They can't agree on what to do.