Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Draft by SSBohio

message: When in doubt, biographies should be reverted back to a version that is sourced, neutral, and on-topic.  In cases where the BLP violation is egregious or contains personally-identifiable information, administrators should delete the versions necessary to remove the offending material.  Due care should be exercised to preserve non-violating revisions whenever possible, in the interest of not biting good-faith contributors unnecessarily.  In all such deletions, administrators must preserve the edit history due to copyright and GFDL considerations, even if the underlying revisions must be deleted.
===Semi-protection and protection===
Administrators who believe there to have been malicious or biased editing, positive or negative, or who have reason to believe that this policy may otherwise be violated, may protect or semi-protect the page after removing the disputed material in order to prevent its re-addition.
===BLP deletion standards===
When closing a deletion discussion about living persons whose notability is ambiguous, the closing administrator should take into account whether the subject of the article being deleted has asked that it be deleted. There is no consensus about how much weight editors should give those wishes; in that matter the closing administrator may exercise discretion.  After the deletion of a biography of a living person, editors should consider moving data to another article, but they must bear in mind that this policy applies equally to all pages of Wikipedia, not just to articles where a living person is the subject; editors should not move material from a deleted biography of a living person solely as a means to thwart the intent of the page deletion. Also, when merging content from a biography of a living person, editors must preserve the edit history due to copyright and GFDL considerations.
===Disputed deletions===
Administrators should obtain consensus before undeleting material that has been deleted under this policy, and wherever possible, disputed deletions should be discussed with the administrator who deleted the article.  The deleting administrator must be willing to explain the deletion to other Wikipedians, by e-mail if the material is sensitive; administrators and other editors who object to the deletion should bear in mind that the deleting administrator may be aware of issues that others are not;  However, this should not be interpreted as giving blanket permission for deletions based on secret evidence.  Disputes may be taken to deletion review, but protracted public discussion should be avoided for deletions involving sensitive information about living persons.
===Courtesy blanking of deletion discussions===
If a biography of a living person is deleted through an Articles for Deletion (AfD) discussion, the AfD page and any subsequent deletion review that fails may be blanked as a courtesy or deleted entirely if there is inappropriate commentary, though such deletion isn't formally required by current policy. "...In the meantime, it is my position that MOST AfD pages for living persons or active companies should be courtesy blanked (at a minimum) as a standard process, and deleted in all cases where there was inappropriate commentary. This is not the current policy, but currenty policy does allow for deletions of material which is potentially hurtful to people." --Jimbo Wales 01:42, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Preventing BLP violations

message: If a biography of a living person is deleted through an Articles for Deletion (AfD) discussion, the AfD page and any subsequent deletion review that fails may be blanked as a courtesy or deleted entirely if there is inappropriate commentary, though such deletion isn't formally required by current policy. "...In the meantime, it is my position that MOST AfD pages for living persons or active companies should be courtesy blanked (at a minimum) as a standard process, and deleted in all cases where there was inappropriate commentary. This is not the current policy, but currenty policy does allow for deletions of material which is potentially hurtful to people." --Jimbo Wales 01:42, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Courtesy blanking of deletion discussions