Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On 20 Apr 2007 at 20:42:24 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
{{fact}}. Put together a listing of these biographies, publicize it, and if they really are so egregiously libelous I expect editors would start swarming all over them like rabid deletionist weasels.
I've been keeping a list of the various squabbles, skirmishes, kerfluffles, etc., that have occurred when Wikipedia articles and their subjects were at cross purposes for some reason. They exhibit various degrees of reasonability and unreasonability both on the part of what was published on Wikipedia and what reaction the subject had to it.
That's a nice little collection there. It's pushing midnight so I can't do an exhaustive examination but the random ones I've sampled so far look like they've come to what I'd call good conclusions - most of them simply resulting in heavily referenced and cleaned-up articles, but including at least one so far where the subject of a biography said "I'm non-notable, delete me!" and the resulting AfD concluded "he's right you know." So it does happen sometimes. :)