"Michael Snow" wrote
3. For people who have been involved in a significant
amount of
controversy, putting all of this material in a criticisms section makes
the article unbalanced. It may also generate disproportionate attention
to the criticisms. Again, this is a failure to create a neutral article.
I think that's probably right. For example, any prominent politician is
likely to have much citable criticism of his/her actions; and that should be
dealt with topic by topic, as a general rule. But there are other types of
case.
> The existing guidelines strike me as sufficient to
deal with the issue
> on a case by case basis.
Agree.
The guidelines are perhaps adequate, because this is
partly a cultural
issue. But it's been clear for a while that we have serious systemic and
cultural issues on articles dealing with living people.
Yup. About all that currently can be said is that
- they make up at least 10% of enWP articles (perhaps 15% - any guesses?)
- they mostly fall into a few main areas: politicians, sports, the arts and
music, media and writers, academia, technology, business, religion,
military.
We may well need to have guidelines sector-by-sector for these.
Charles