User talk:Apple2gss
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Kwamikagami is dead |
- A note on Wikipedia policy
WP:BLP is just a suggestion, not something to take seriously. I can write libelous things about living people if a reliable source reports that some random person said those things. If you revert me, you can be blocked for edit warring—even if, as in this case, people have emailed you with concerns that the people being libeled may face death threats as a consequence.
If a page is finally moved after months of debate, and I don't like it, I can revert it without discussion or justification. If you restore the consensus name, you will be desysopped for wheel-warring.
I don't know if the number of Randys and the simply delusional has increased, generally and among members of Wikiprojects who are supposed to have a clue, or if the idiot level has finally just worn me down, but it really isn't worth discussing anything with the astronomy editor who doesn't understand the IAU definition of a planet, but will edit war over it anyway while insisting that expert sources spoon-fed to him with on-line links "don't exist", or with the history editor who argues it's acceptable to call devout Muslims "atheists" if they appear at an interfaith forum (even if they come from countries where the penalty for that is death), and a breach of policy to deny it; or the long-term and prolific contributor to the reference desk who argues for a topic ban over "abuse" if you restore an article on a lake which he claims is "imaginary" because he's never heard of it before, and that even to mention it is a violation of WP rules because NOAA is not a "valid source". After a while, sure, let's say that skeletons fought the Peloponnesian War. Who cares? Maybe our readers will grow to be as well-informed as our editors.