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:Electowiki is a great place to talk about electoral reform. Please continue. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] 21:45, 12 November 2006 (PST)
== Articles about living people (BLP policy) ==
Electowiki hasn't had a policy for articles about living people. Wikipedia has a very complicated [[w:WP:BLP|Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)]] policy, which has evolved over the past several years to avoid problems like the [[w:Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident|Seigenthaler incident]] and also frivilous [[w:SLAPP|SLAPP lawsuits]] from people who fail to understand the [[w:Streisand effect|Streisand effect]]. It seems that pages about living persons on Electowiki should either be user pages (e.g. [[User:RobLa|Rob Lanphier]]) or short summary articles in the main namespace that point to the Wikipedia articles. I believe the article about [[Steven Brams]] sets a very good example (it's short, and points to a much more detailed article about its subject).
The policy I would like to enact:
:Pages about living persons on Electowiki in the main namespace need to be pointers to Wikipedia articles, unless otherwise approved by the Electowiki site administrators.
[[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]], do you agree with this policy? If so, then let's make this the policy as soon as possible (and let's figure out if/when/how we allow exceptions). -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 06:30, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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