Wikipedia slags off Palmerston North

[Fred Bauder-2]

> Also, the way that ongoing enterprises page is written, it doesn't seem
> to
> be very meaningful for anything other than a company.  For instance, an
> article about a city might be edited by a resident of the city, who isn't
> an
> employee or agent (and in general has a weaker conflict of interest,
> since
> a city can't fire its residents).
>

That was the purpose for which it was written, but the same principles
apply to other situations, if the choice is made to apply them.
Sofixit...

Fred



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[Fred Bauder-2]

> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> The arbitration committee has held that the principles of Biographies
>> of
>> living persons apply to organizations:
>
> I thought that arbcom doesn't make policy, so its decision only applies
> to that
> particular case.
>

I'm just the court reporter...

I'm not sure what the decision would be in a similar case, although I
would argue that the principles which underlie Biographies of living
persons is the policy and are not limited to Biographies of living
persons.

Fred



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[WJhonson]

In a message dated 6/28/2009 8:35:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
fredbaud@... writes:


> Please finish the job, if you can. Clearly, business, organizations, and
> towns can also suffer both embarrassment and damages from libel and
> unfounded negative information.>>

Hold on.  You said "enterprises" *failed* to reach consensus.
A business is not an organization but an enterprise.
A town, as a corporation is more analagous to an enterprise as well.

Will





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