Delirium wrote:
I don't think we should do so in less-notable cases either---an article should only be deleted if there really is no reason to have an article on the topic, not because it's a vandalism magnet.
If we find our social and technological systems are not up to the task of creating and maintaining biographies of barely notable people, particularly those who are flame-magnets, then we are better not having them at all.
Other measures, like semi-protection, having some people put it on their watchlists, or even temporary outright protection, are better ways to combat vandalism IMO. Perhaps we even need new anti-vandalism measures, but deleting articles entirely is sort of a silly way of keeping them from being vandalized.
I agree with you completely on that. What I want to wake people up to, and this is something I have been saying increasingly loudly for months, with _good results_ so far, although I think there is a long way to go: biographies of barely notable living persons present a particularly difficult challenge.
--Jimbo