-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs@eskimo.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:26 AM
To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues
David Gerard wrote:
On 22/04/07, Jeff Raymond
<jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
James Farrar wrote:
>> Unless there is a published biography on the individual,
>> our default is deletion.
>
> That seems like a sensible criterion - and there might be potential to
> extend that to classes of articles other than BLP.
I've always seen this as a rather horrid
criterion. So what does this
mean? Most sportsmen, most television stars, most musicians, many
politicians - gone. And let's not even get started at the systematic
bias issues inherent in this...
Indeed. Our systemic bias is bad enough now without entrenching it in
this manner.
Wait, wait, wait. A little while back, the notion was that
biographies would be deleted *if the subject requested it* and
there were no other published biography. If the "if the subject
requested it" clause were reinstated, would the notion be so
destabilizing?
That's good, the complaints often come regarding the golems constructed from scraps of
stray media coverage.
Fred