David Gerard wrote:
Can I propose it then?
- Category:Living people can be added to an article by anyone; the
software prevents anyone not an admin from removing it. 2. Being in that cat makes an article semi-protected.
This rests on the assumption that living people are uniquely problematic. I disagree. It is true that incorrect (especially libelous) information about a living person generally will cause more harm than the same about a dead person. However, there are many articles in which incorrect information will cause much more harm than incorrect information in most of our living-person articles will (most of the latter are obscure and rarely, if ever, actually read).
For example: -- Articles on nations -- Articles on ethnicities -- Articles on religions -- Articles on controversial topics in history -- Medicine-related articles
Do you really think libel about some obscure living person is worse than, say, incorrect information in [[suicide]], [[cocaine]], or [[Basque country]], so much so that it's worth taking special measures for the category of living people that aren't taken for any other category of article?
-Mark