Resolution:Biographies of living people/nl

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Biografieën van levende personen

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Deze resolutie, die het standpunt van de Foundation verklaart met betrekking tot biografieën van levende personen, is aangemomen in april 2009.

De Wikimedia Foundation wil graag gebruik maken van deze gelegenheid om onze kernprincipes betreffende onze visie, missie en waarden nog eens onder de aandacht te brengen. Eén van deze door al onze projecten gedeelde waarden bestaat uit het handhaven van een neutraal standpunt.

In onze inspanningen om een baken van waardevolle kennis te zijn die van algemeen nut is, hebben wij de verantwoordelijkheid om deze waarden hoog te houden, ook door accurate informatie aan te bieden. De deelnemers aan de projecten van Wikimedia hebben een ware schat aan informatie samengesteld, reusachtig in omvang en reikwijdte. Sinds jaar en dag benadrukken wij dat niet alleen de hoeveelheid informatie van belang is; ook de kwaliteit ervan is essentieel. Diverse onderzoeken bevestigen dat de informatie in Wikimedia-projecten over het algemeen van goede kwaliteit is, maar het is belangrijk dat we altijd naar verbetering blijven streven. Zoals bij ieder ander educatief of informatief project dienen fouten te worden vermeden, zeker wanneer deze schade zouden kunnen veroorzaken. Een van de domeinen waar dit van toepassing is, is het schrijven over levende personen.

Increasingly, Wikimedia articles are among the top search engine results for just about any query. That means that when a potential employer, a colleague, friend, neighbor or acquaintance looks for information about a person, they may find it at the Wikimedia sites. As the popularity of the Wikimedia projects grows, so does the editing community's responsibility to ensure articles about living people are neutrally-written, accurate and well-sourced.

As our popularity has grown, some issues have become more prominent:

• Many people create articles that are overly promotional in tone: about themselves, people they admire, or those they are paid to represent. These are not neutral, and have no place in our projects. Generally, the Wikimedia community protects the projects well against this common problem by deleting or improving hagiographies.
• People sometimes vandalize articles about living people. The Wikimedia community has developed tools and techniques for counteracting vandalism: in general they seem to work reasonably well.

• Some articles about living people contain small errors, are poorly-written or poorly-sourced. Articles about people who are only marginally well-known are often neglected, and tend to improve much more slowly over time, if at all.
• People sometimes make edits designed to smear others. This is difficult to identify and counteract, particularly if the malicious editor is persistent.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia community to uphold and strengthen our commitment to high-quality, accurate information, by:

1. Ensuring that projects in all languages that describe living people have policies in place calling for special attention to the principles of neutrality and verifiability in those articles;
2. Taking human dignity and respect for personal privacy into account when adding or removing information, especially in articles of ephemeral or marginal interest;

1. Investigating new technical mechanisms to assess edits, particularly when they affect living people, and to better enable readers to report problems;
2. Treating any person who has a complaint about how they are described in our projects with patience, kindness, and respect, and encouraging others to do the same.