[WikiEN-l] COO story now in major media

[Andrew Gray]

On 21/12/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I am just arguing that there is absolutely no way in hell we would have
> > an article in the case of Carolyn Doran, were it not for Wikipedia
> > navel-gazing.  There was no fraud (that we know of), nothing bad
> > happened to us (that we know of), it is just an embarassment and for
> > this poor woman, her rather sad life story is now in the Associated
> > Press.  But this whole thing is still amply covered by BLP1E and
> > non-Wikipedia precedent and tradition.
>
> I don't see how this falls under BLP1E, since it doesn't boil down to
> a single event in any way that I can see.

The single "notable" event is this massive fuss. It stems from a
series of independent events, none of which are independently notable
- we wouldn't write an article about someone who did one or another or
even all of her various past misdemeanours.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk