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English wiki Unsourced BLP Drama Pragmatic Review

Fragment of a discussion from Village pump/en

here the motion

ArbCom motion was everyone move forward and find a solution to unsourced BLP.

ArbCom position is something like we will support any proposal that will get us rid of unsourced BLP even if the proposal means nuking 50K articles. However ArbCom will obviously pick the workable proposal that would gather most support.

By designing a "good side", i mean that Jimmy Wales even thanked one of the editors who started it the "party".

That said the scales are even because when some editors mention "wiki civil war" (read some of the statements), it smells Pyrrhic victory. One side pushing to far would lead to much hatred, strife, bitterness, people leaving the project & bad Public Relation. Wikipedia can't afford that level of general distrust. See the fellow-up ArbCom request to see how fired up are the non on their sides editors.

KrebMarkt20:03, 24 January 2010