-----Original Message----- From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 04:21 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
On 23/05/07, Trebor Rowntree trebor.rowntree@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, repeating myself here. The lesson from Siegenthaler was to source source source, and delete anything which wasn't. It didn't (and BLP doesn't) say anything about deletion of articles about individuals famous for negative reasons.
The point is that isn't particularly fame. The incident is famous, the person's pretty much only famous in association with the incident. For a local example, there's an article at [[Essjay controversy]] but only a pointer at [[Ryan Jordan]] (which is a disambig).
The Crystal whatsit article is now a redirect to the incident of fame (and I'm fine with that; I zapped it because the single-purpose editors were so rabid about it). But her *grade point averages* sure as hell don't belong in the article. That's what I mean by immaculately sourced attack article. Her GPAs? What on earth?
- d.
That is an appropriate resolution. Rather than an article about a not notable person involved in a notable incident we have an article about the incident. What else is there to say about this person that is not malicious?
Fred