決議： 生者传记
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| 本决议表明了基金会对生者传记的态度，于2009年4月获得通过。 |
维基媒体基金会想借此机会重申一些与我们的共有愿景、任务和价值观相关的核心原则。在这些价值观中，其中有一项适用于我们所有的项目，它是维系中立观点的保证。
我们努力提供对所有人都具有价值和用途的知识来源，因此我们也有义务去坚持这些价值观，向读者提供准确的信息。维基媒体项目的参与者创造了规模和范围都极为庞大的资源。数年来我们始终强调：除了知识的数量外，它们的质量同样非常重要。许多研究都已证实维基媒体项目中信息的质量普遍较高，但是我们仍然应该不断地去改善质量。如同在提供教育和新闻材料时应该尽力避免错误，特别是避免可能造成危害的错误一样；在撰写和在世人物有关的内容时也应注意这一点。
越来越多的维基媒体条目会在搜索引擎中排到前列位置上。这也意味着某个人物的潜在雇主、同事、朋友、邻居或者其他熟人在寻找有关他的信息时，会在维基媒体的网站上找到。随着维基媒体项目知名度的日益提高，其编辑社群将更有责任去确保与在世人物相关的条目是中立、准确和来源充足的。
随着我们知名度的提高，一些问题已经开始凸显：
- 许多人在创建与他们自己、他们喜爱之人或付钱让他们代言之人相关的条目时，会流于宣传语调。这样做是不中立的，不能在我们的项目中谋得容身之地。总的来说，维基媒体的社群通过删除或改善这些吹捧性传记解决了这些常见问题，有效地保护了我们的项目。
- 有些人有时会破坏关于在世人物的条目。维基媒体社群为此开发了工具和技术来应对这些破坏：总的来说，这些工具和技术的成效显著。
- 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:
- 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;
- Taking human dignity and respect for personal privacy into account when adding or removing information, especially in articles of ephemeral or marginal interest;
- Investigating new technical mechanisms to assess edits, particularly when they affect living people, and to better enable readers to report problems;
- 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.