James Farrar wrote:
That would be
another way to go. Unless there is a published biography
on the individual, our default is deletion. Again there will be
exceptions - but we could let afd sort that out. We just change the
default - you need a consensus for inclusion if there is no other
biography in publication.
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, especially in third world countries or
nations with government-controlled media where the "biographies" we
require simply wouldn't exist for reasons outside of our happy Western
control.
-Jeff
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