Editing BLP (section)

== BLP manipulation on Wikipedia ==

Prior to the introduction of the BLP policy on Wikipedia, people could write articles on pretty much anyone for pretty much any reason.  Nobody really took the articles overly seriously since, fundamentally, Wikipedia's current issue articles are appallingly bad, and always have been.  The only exceptions were their articles about movie stars, TV shows and musicians, and even then on any controversial or otherwise important issues they were appallingly terrible.  Articles on politicians and important people have always been appalling.  

Without BLP, nobody thought to treat Wikipedia's articles about living people seriously.  Sure, so the Wikipedia faithful would insist that they were good, but anyone with any intelligence would know that they were pretty woeful.  People took these articles with a grain of salt, as it were.  They weren't taken very seriously.  Inaccuracies about living people were Wikipedia's laughing stock and there was talk of removing them entirely.

Now that BLP has been introduced, most articles about living people have the look and feel of Wikipedia's more accurate articles - about TV shows, movies, music, games and celebrities.  And yet they are still just as bad as they have ever been.

Because of the supposed faith in BLP, which, thanks largely to Daniel Brandt, is also shared by and large on critic sites such as [[Wikipedia Review]], Wikipedia's appallingly bad articles about living people that matter are now given far more credibility than they deserve.  People take them seriously, since, per BLP, hey they can't be wrong.  And yet a lot of people don't realise that BLP was never the main problem.  BLP only addresses whether or not something is libellous - it in no way addresses the much more important issue of [[truth changing]].  BLP actually makes Wikipedia's ability to change truth a lot worse.

Thanks to BLP, efforts to stop truth changing on Wikipedia, to expose Wikipedia lies or in any way to stop the horrendous [[cabal]]-like infrastructure is more difficult than it has ever been.  [[Jimbo Wales]], the founder of Wikipedia, has even gone on record to say that there is a cabal and he likes it that way, and, in light of BLP, he thinks that it is a good thing.