On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:08 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/30/2008 8:06:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
Is it relevant to his general notability and significance as a topic?
If *each* statement in a bio has to be, then we should never state when a person was born or where, since those are not notable nor significant. In fact 80 to 95 percent of what we have in bios now is not particularly notable or significant. But it's standard to cite those.
I'd say that front-page scandals are notable and significant, no matter how old they are or who they address.
I suspect the viewpoints you have for your own "warts and all" biographies you do on your own website have no bearing on how we treat BLPs on Wikipedia. Stop trying to import your own lax or harmful standards here.
- Joe