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:: There are many very problematic issues with Electowiki articles about living people, not the least of which being that we allow pseudo-anonymous editing. So, for instance, I have no idea who [[Dr. Edmonds]] is, or how this person knows what they claim to know about [[Warren Smith]]. Because of that, I've become convinced that it is a candidate for speedy deletion, so I'm deleting it now. As the current policy states "''Unless we specifically say so, many of the English Wikipedia's policies apply to us''", and as of this writing, we haven't published a BLP policy that is different than English Wikipedia's policy.
:: When it comes to someone's User: page on this wiki, there is much more latitude (e.g. the user can choose to divulge as much or as little as they want). There's still a problem with obviously incorrect information, but we can at least make it clear to readers that we give users in the User: namespace more editorial control over the content there. For main namespace content, it doesn't seem smart to deviate very far from English Wikipedia's policies. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 18:11, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
::: This is the first page I made and really the one I care least about. I am fine with deletion. The info I put there was from him and his webpage. Maybe we can just link to his own biography here http://scorevoting.net/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/myresume.html This would be a good policy in general. Most people have a page of their own with a biography --[[User:Dr. Edmonds|Dr. Edmonds]] ([[User talk:Dr. Edmonds|talk]]) 19:39, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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