Rob Brewer (rob@rbrwr.org) [050603 02:25]:
This week's edition of the UK entertainment scandal e-mail Popbitch (see [[Popbitch]]) includes a link to [[Talk:Michael Colvin]] which includes some "bizarre conspiracy theories" relating to [[Derek Laud]], a contestant on the current series of Big Brother. User:Smoddy deleted them as "possibly libellous" but they have been restored. They also exist in the history of [[Michael Colvin]] at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Colvin&oldid=6052341 Do we really want to be carrying this stuff? If not we will have to delete it, both from the article (using selective undelete) and the talk page, and probably protect the pages to stop it being pasted back in again. Opinions?
It's been deleted from the talk page once (admins can see it, and IANAL but I have been a journalist, and it sure smelt like defamation to me). This is close to zap on sight IMO. (It's certainly original research if the documentation backing it up isn't to hand.) May need to keep an eye on the article and talk page for a while, yes.
- d.