Talk:Ann Althouse

message: I was asked to fix a date correction in this protected article, but when I looked at the section, it seemed to violate the BLP policy, which says that unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material should be removed immediately. The critics were unnamed and there were no references. If the sources are blogs, these are not allowed in BLPs, unless the blog owner is the subject: see WP:V and WP:BLP. I also removed the unsourced date of birth, and I removed the tag in part because the contentious section is no longer on the page, and in part because it was drawing attention to a dispute, which can be a BLP problem in itself. It's best with biographies of living persons to err on the side of caution and discretion. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 16:48, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think all that's eminently reasonable, and I heartily approve of the article as instantly constituted.Simon Dodd 16:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that all those issues with the contentious section were the result of your overzealous editing, it seems rather bizarre to congratulate SlimVirgin for correcting your errors. I expect the section will return in some form in due course.Wnjr 11:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: BLP

message: The article is still protected, but without the customary legend to that effect.  If the protection is to continue, it should be noted at the top of the article.
Alternatively, is there any reason not to unprotect?  I haven't been involved in editing this article, but there's apparently been no discussion of any disputes on this talk page for more than a month.  That would normally be a reason to unprotect. JamesMLane t c 08:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection 

message: While Althouse may be a "repected legal scholar" who is suffers the terrible ills of having "small dogs" "yapping" about her heels, the simple fact is that in this crazy internet of ours she is largely known as a BLOGGER. That is, she blogs. Perhaps this wikipedia entry should mention that crazy fact?
I understand that she is a political blogger, and like most political topics there is no acceptable NPV that is not the author's NPV. But refusing to discuss the thing which has made her most well known in the world is silly. Or do you think she was brought to the attention of the NY Times and got to write those those op-eds on the basis of her legal scholarship? (Speaking of which, perhaps this article should mention, or link to, those Op-Eds?)
Glen Reynolds has a blog, a rather popular one at that. He is also a law professor. And somehow, his wikipedia page manages to mention both of those facts.128.84.218.156 04:49, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: She was notable for her scholarship before she even began blogging. Ergo, the article balances between Althouse qua a law professor and Althouse qua a blogger. (When you say that "people" researching her don't care about X, moreover, what you really mean is that you don't care about X; see You != "Some People".) Materials about various controversies have passed through the article from time to time, and the result has always been to skew the article in ways that run aground on WP:NPOV, WP:RECENT, and WP:UNDUE. That is is precisely why such materials aren't here now and shouldn't be added. The article as it presently stands is a concise, unbiased, NPOV description of Althouse. The last thing it needs is another shouting match between her fans and detractors over what additional material about why she's peachy/awful ought to be included. - Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 16:19, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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