決議: 生者傳記
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| 本決議表明了基金會對生者傳記的態度，於2009年4月獲得通過。 |
維基媒體基金會想藉此機會重申一些與我們的共有願景、任務和價值觀相關的核心原則。在這些價值觀中，其中有一項適用於我們所有的計畫，它是維繫中立觀點的保證。
我們努力提供對所有人都具有價值和用途的知識來源，因此我們也有義務去堅持這些價值觀，向讀者提供準確的資訊。維基媒體計畫的參與者創造了規模和範圍都極為龐大的資源。數年來我們始終強調：除了知識的數量外，它們的質量同樣非常重要。許多研究都已證實維基媒體計畫中資訊的質量普遍較高，但是我們仍然應該不斷地去改善質量。如同在提供教育和新聞材料時應該儘力避免錯誤，特別是避免可能造成危害的錯誤一樣；在撰寫和在世人物有關的內容時也應注意這一點。
越來越多的維基媒體計畫會在搜尋引擎中排到前列位置上。這也意味着某個人物的潛在僱主、同事、朋友、鄰居或者其他熟人在尋找有關他的資訊時，會在維基媒體的網站上找到。隨着維基媒體計畫知名度的日益提高，其編輯社群將更有責任去確保與在世人物相關的條目是中立、準確和來源充足的。
隨着我們知名度的提高，一些問題已經開始凸顯：
- 許多人在創建與他們自己、他們喜愛之人或付錢讓他們代言之人相關的條目時，會流於宣傳語調。這樣做是不中立的，不能在我們的計畫中謀得容身之地。總的來說，維基媒體的社群通過刪除或改善這些吹捧性傳記解決了這些常見問題，有效地保護了我們的計畫。
- 有些人有時會破壞關於在世人物的條目。維基媒體社群為此開發了工具和技術來應對這些破壞：總的來說，這些工具和技術的成效顯著。
- 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.