On 19/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
respect to deletion, I cannot abide the suggestion that the community writ large truly believe, legal/publicity concerns aside, that we ever ought to concern ourselves with the external consequences of our editing.
I do. For barely notable people, information in Wikipedia could have a disproportionate effect on their life. We should be aware of that, and behave accordingly.
Incidentally, one of the arguments occasionally surfacing wrt notability is "if the Wikipedia article is going to help make this organisation famous, they're not notable"
Perhaps a corrolary is "if the Wikipedia article can significantly influence its subject compared to anything else written about them, should we have it?"