Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Badlydrawnjeff
Case Opened on 18:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Case Closed on 17:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Principles
Biographies of living persons
1) Wikipedia articles that present material about living people can affect their subjects' lives. Wikipedia editors who deal with these articles have a responsibility to consider the legal and ethical implications of their actions when doing so.
Passed 11 to 0 at 17:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Basic human dignity
2) Implicit in the
Passed 11 to 0 at 17:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Do no harm
3) In cases where the appropriateness of material regarding a living person is questioned, the rule of thumb should be "do no harm." In practice, this means that such material should be removed until a decision to include it is reached, rather than being included until a decision to remove it is reached.
Passed 9 to 2 at 17:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Summary deletion of BLPs
4) Any administrator, acting on their own judgment, may delete an article that is substantially a biography of a living person if they believe that it (and every previous version of it) significantly violates any aspect of the
Passed 9 to 1 at 17:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Administrators
6) Wikipedia administrators are trusted members of the community and are expected to follow Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Occasional lapses may be overlooked, but consistently poor judgement may result in desysopping.
Passed 7 to 0 at 17:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)