On 20/04/07, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
Posted on behalf of Musical Linguist, at her request:
The argument for deleting it is that it's the decent thing to do, and it might stop the stalking.
"Might" isn't good enough, I'm afraid.
An argument against deleting it is that he's notable enough to *permit* inclusion. He is not notable enough to *require* inclusion. We would not lose credibility as an encylopaedia if the article were gone.
I don't recognise degrees of notability beyond the binary state of "notable enough to have an article" or "not". Talk of degrees of notability are unhelpful because you could be faced with a question of "where do we draw the line?" - we already have that line.
Deleting an article because the subject wants it deleted would set a terrible precedent. What do we do in the future if someone else wants their bio deleted? If we delete this one, we must delete all bios on request.