Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikiblower protection

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DE-LIST. This is apparently a policy proposal, and per Wikipedia:How to create policy should be given an appropriate period to develop consensus. VfD is not the recognized mechanism for determining policy, and with limited exceptions, the project namespace is out of the jurisdiction of VfD. Failed policies are kept for historical record, not deleted, see Category:Wikipedia rejected policies. Essjay · Talk 08:56, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikiblower protection

This has been created by a single user as if this was accepted Wikipedia policy; this seems to be ad hoc rule making and not really justifiable without community consensus. I don't really think this "Wikiblower protection" idea can be just left in the article space; consequently, I suggest deletion. NicholasTurnbull 03:48, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - page was created in response to something posted on a user page. Wikipedia policy is created by concensus, as far as I know. Rob Church 03:56, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete article and will somebody please repremand Ed so we can lay this to rest? humblefool®^{Deletion Reform} 03:57, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Do not Delete - Instead allow consensus to develop. There must be a policy to protect whisleblowers. It ought to be official policy and not just-another-aspect-of-the-good-ol'e-boys-network. (Full Disclosure - I am the Initiating editor) Benjamin Gatti
  • There's no such thing as a "good ol' boys' network". There is an "old boys' network" of alumni of prestigious colleges who refer to one another as "old boys," and there are "good ol' boys", who are Southern rednecks, but those two groups don't have much in common. Just a nerdly observation. —Wahoofive (talk) 05:57, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I've seen pages start like this before. It's not pretending to be an official policy or guideline, is it? I don't see the harm. Friday 04:04, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Directly contradicts WP:POINT.Geni 05:26, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, if you want to develop a consensus, do it on the talk page of the appropriate policy page. Tempshill 05:30, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This is a valid and serious proposal and should be discussed as such, rather than VFDed/RFDed. That said, I am opposed on the grounds that I don't believe it should ever be necessary to perform a breaching experiment in order to call attention to bad policies. Assumming every delete vote can also be read as an oppose vote then this doesn't seem to have much traction as potential policy and before long we should probably just mark this as {{rejected}} and move on. Dragons flight 06:39, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. I support the basic idea of this policy/guideline, but it needs to be explicated further before anyone can meaningfully support it (or oppose). In particular, we need to figure out how it should relate to WP:POINT. I've been part of a number of consensus-based communities, and in each one I have noticed the occasional need for sincere members of the community to unilaterally break things down. Without unilateralism and disruption of a constructive kind, it is sometimes impossible for the community to move on. I fear, however, that the distinction between wikiblowers and pointmakers can be made only in hindsight. -- Visviva 08:04, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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