-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 09:15 AM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues (Jimmy Wales shouldreconsider)
On 22/04/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/04/07, doc
<doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > If no one else has ever published an
article which is about the person, as opposed to mentioning them in some regard, that
should be a clue.
> > Fred
> 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.
The objection to this one is entrenching systemic bias.
- d.
We are a compendium of existing knowledge. The body of existing knowledge suffers from
grave defects.
Fred