James Farrar Well, we could give up, shut down the project, and all go and do something else.
I really think Wikipedia would survive having a biography of living person opt-out for a marginally-notable person. Of course, it's riskless for me to say that. But objectively, *most* of the objections to it seem to be pure dogma. Hence the (by now painful) circularity of argument when this topic comes up - it's driven by many other, ideological, factors besides the nominal difficulties.