I m very careful with the word slander I use it to describe slander As in what Qworty posted Note that slander has two senses one legal and one informal The legal sense is not for me to determine The informal sense Um try to interpret this as anything but slander I think it s going to come out that the only reason she got any books published at all was because her rich daddy was a huge big deal in the publishing world And the reason she can t get any books published anymore is because her big rich daddy is retired now and no longer a heavyweight at all in that world Qworty Not only do I interpret this as slander but so do sober people on Wikipedia And I quote Tvoz with respect to your slander Well I think there certainly are questionable maybe defamatory allegations there and it would seem that BLP policy is not being fully followed This is a long time editor who is well aware of policy so suggesting that he she step back was appropriate as a first step to diffuse the drama and I see that the next step I expected of asking the editor to remove the material him herself has been done at User talk Qworty BLP concerns by a well respected admin But policy calls for the material to be removed either voluntarily by its author or by any editor as we have an obligation to not defame our subjects even in the heat of argument For what it s worth the word defamatory is in fact a legal designation Moreover if I were discussing the law which I m not then I would be using the term libel which covers written published defamation as opposed to slander which in the strict legal sense pertains to speech