On 2/23/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Rich Holton wrote:
However, it must have been pretty predictable that a speedy delete would cause controversy, and accusations of abuse of admin powers. If we do have such a practice of removing marginally notable characters at their request, shouldn't we codify that somehow, so as to avoid (or at least reduce) the controversy?
The problem is that we have nowhere near consensus for such a policy. A large number of editors support it, and a large number of editors oppose it. Different specific cases have gone different ways, mostly depending on who showed up to the debate that day.
That there is no system for listing names of certain BLP based deletes lends to the sense that these are OFFICE actions. Even talk pages get removed and we have to wonder WTF? So theres this thin line between notablity and sensitivity - stating a preference for the latter doesnt really offer people a method by which they can be more attuned to peoples feelings and less attuned to just encyclopise everything.
-Stevertigo