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Living People Patrol is a proposed active monitoring group interested in manually assisting editors in implementing and enforcing the Wikipedia policy on Biographies of living persons (BLP). As we seek out a direction, please visit talk on Wikipedia talk:Living People Patrol. For automatic, bot assisted enforcement of the BLP policy, see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch. Although currently inactive, there is a brainstorming session here to discuss future projects and revisions to the rules.
This is a simple patrol to keep an eye on edits as they come through. It doesn't have to be perfect and the reviewers don't have to be perfect; we just want every living bio edit to be reviewed at least once.
The first should be automatable using similar tools to those currently used in vandalism patrolling; the second would be suited to some custom JavaScript, such that a reviewer need only glance at an article and press a button to add the cat and tag if needed.
Note that the recent changes patrolling should not be difficult; revert edits that add apparently-questionable information without a source and note the reverted edit on the talk page (this could also use a piece of JavaScript to do the job in one click), tag more difficult cases for someone else to take more time over (see next section). Note also that perfection is not required of the editors.
If we can honestly tell people that Wikipedia runs at least this level of checking, it'll be good for both internal quality control and for internal and external publicity.
We have a lot of existing living people articles that are not in the category and don't have the tag. We need to find these articles and tag them (with Category:Living people on the article and {{ WPBiography}} on the talk page), so that they can be more easily monitored. This is something that can be done more slowly at our leisure.
Possible ways to search on such articles:
Once members of BLPP identify an article as potentially libelous, the following process should be followed:
Slander_and_libel#Defamation_per_se describes four instances of libel that are already defamatory by default.
Three user talk templates for dealing with users violating WP:BLP.
To put these messages on a user's talk page, use the code {{blp1}}, {{blp2}}, or {{blp3}}
Any editor can join this group. Just sign your name below.
Mithrandir ( talk) 15:57, 27 January 2011 (UTC) June 2010 (UTC)
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
Living People Patrol is a proposed active monitoring group interested in manually assisting editors in implementing and enforcing the Wikipedia policy on Biographies of living persons (BLP). As we seek out a direction, please visit talk on Wikipedia talk:Living People Patrol. For automatic, bot assisted enforcement of the BLP policy, see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch. Although currently inactive, there is a brainstorming session here to discuss future projects and revisions to the rules.
This is a simple patrol to keep an eye on edits as they come through. It doesn't have to be perfect and the reviewers don't have to be perfect; we just want every living bio edit to be reviewed at least once.
The first should be automatable using similar tools to those currently used in vandalism patrolling; the second would be suited to some custom JavaScript, such that a reviewer need only glance at an article and press a button to add the cat and tag if needed.
Note that the recent changes patrolling should not be difficult; revert edits that add apparently-questionable information without a source and note the reverted edit on the talk page (this could also use a piece of JavaScript to do the job in one click), tag more difficult cases for someone else to take more time over (see next section). Note also that perfection is not required of the editors.
If we can honestly tell people that Wikipedia runs at least this level of checking, it'll be good for both internal quality control and for internal and external publicity.
We have a lot of existing living people articles that are not in the category and don't have the tag. We need to find these articles and tag them (with Category:Living people on the article and {{ WPBiography}} on the talk page), so that they can be more easily monitored. This is something that can be done more slowly at our leisure.
Possible ways to search on such articles:
Once members of BLPP identify an article as potentially libelous, the following process should be followed:
Slander_and_libel#Defamation_per_se describes four instances of libel that are already defamatory by default.
Three user talk templates for dealing with users violating WP:BLP.
To put these messages on a user's talk page, use the code {{blp1}}, {{blp2}}, or {{blp3}}
Any editor can join this group. Just sign your name below.
Mithrandir ( talk) 15:57, 27 January 2011 (UTC) June 2010 (UTC)