On 4/22/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
OK. What seems a practical first move?
Deleting all living bios is not going to fly. It just won't be accepted.
The layer of barely-notable bios could be vanquished with little
trouble. The tricky part is "what is notable?" It's not going to be
possible to come up with a hardline definition that doesn't result in
gross systemic bias, editors deleting like deranged robots or both.
Is a new deletion rule on living bios worth trying? It's the most
politically viable idea I've heard so far.
- d.
Notable has nothing to do with the problem. You could remove bios, but that
doesn't do anything to get rid off libellous statements. Before we start
deleting anything we should try options that do not involve deletion. Like
going through MessedRocker's BLP lists and referencing every dubious
statement in those articles and making sure they're balanced and neutral.
We might consider deleting bios someone considers consistently libellous,
but it's pointless to delete articles that otherwise don't pose a problem.
Mgm