On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Delirium wrote:
Not to mention that incorrect information about living
people is neither
the only nor the most damaging sort of incorrect information we can have
in our articles. The potentially most damaging and inflammatory
information is generally incorrect allegations in articles relation to
nationalist disputes. So, in addition to removing all biographies on
living people, I'd suggest we remove all biographies on currently active
disputes, recent wars, and of course currently extant countries, ethnic
groups, and religions.
The difference is that ethnic disputes are widely discussed; the Wikipedia
article is only a small part of the discussion and won't have much of an
effect that thousands of books, magazines, and web pages can't.
For marginally notable people, Wikipedia may be the #1 source for information
about that person.