On 4/4/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)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