On 25/12/2007, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
"Commiting a serious crime" - short of something famously scandalous, or mass murder, or something that caused changes in jurisprudence - is not and has never been accepted by the community as a reasonable basis for inclusion of a biography. I don't see why it should change just because we know of them.
Historically sport and crime have probably been the easiest ways to get into wikipedia. In terms of the energy you would need to expend crime is almost certainly the simplest way to get into wikipedia.