On 4/4/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
That's not how I see it. I see it as preventing Wikipedia from being used as the primary vehicle for publicising barely-known negative material about barely-known living individuals.
I'd say that if anyone knows about Bruce McMahan, it's because of this issue. The top six Google results for his name are about this scandal. I feel that having an article about someone and ignoring the most publicized thing about their life is rather too whitewashing for my preferences, especially when there are newspaper sources to cite.
On the other hand, it could be argued if the best known thing about the guy is this, and it's not THAT well known, then he's a nobody who doesn't need an article at all.
-Matt