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<img alt="" height="1" width="1">Martin Luther King, Jr Wikipedia Page Defiled
Cinema Blend -Apr 8, 2008
By Steve West: 2008-04-08 19:02:35 I don’t offend easily, or at all really. But while watching a movie and making dinner tonight my wife was looking up some ...
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This anecdote is just more evidence that creating and editing BLPs must be limited to responsible, accountable, and credentialed biographers. Perhaps all new article pages (not just BLPs) need to be quarantined until a responsible admin can verify that they are not patently unencyclopedic, and further ensure that BLPs (or articles merely containing biographical information) are protected from haphazard editing by uncredentialed and unqualified parties.
QUOTE(Moulton @ Thu 10th April 2008, 10:20am) 
This anecdote is just more evidence that creating and editing BLPs must be limited to responsible, accountable, and credentialed biographers. Perhaps all new article pages (not just BLPs) need to be quarantined until a responsible admin can verify that they are not patently unencyclopedic, and further ensure that BLPs (or articles merely containing biographical information) are protected from haphazard editing by uncredentialed and unqualified parties.
MLK isn't "living".
I commented yesterday on the article site, but my comment hasn't been posted yet. I'm used to that.
One wonders if he would still be living if he hadn't been assassinated 40 years ago.
But yes, the BLP problem extends to biographies of those whose spirit lives on, even if they have now left their mortal coil.
But yes, the BLP problem extends to biographies of those whose spirit lives on, even if they have now left their mortal coil.
QUOTE(Moulton @ Thu 10th April 2008, 3:31pm)
the BLP problem extends to biographies of those whose spirit lives on, even if they have now left their mortal coil.
If their spirit doesn't live on, we probably don't need articles about them.
I would hope that the spirit of some of the more despicable despots no longer inspire power-hungry politicians. But I daresay history demands that we document their lives, nonetheless.
QUOTE(Moulton @ Thu 10th April 2008, 9:20pm)
I would hope that the spirit of some of the more despicable despots no longer inspire power-hungry politicians.
The triumph of hope over experience, alas.
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