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Fixing unintentional redlink in one of my earlier comments
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: So should we cover it here instead? I don't know.
: I certainly don't think we need any general biographical information, like about their family or sports accomplishments, etc. If anything exists here, it should be limited to only neutral and verifiable points that are related to election methods (or related academic credentials). (But even then, there could be neutral and verifiable facts about election reform organization drama that it's better not to mention.) — [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 15:19, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
:: 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 [[User:Dr. Edmonds|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)
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