On 3/30/07, Travis Mason-Bushman travis@gpsports-eng.com wrote:
On 3/30/07 1:13 AM, "MacGyverMagic/Mgm" macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Offering subjects to delete on request is a bad idea IMO. If they can't handle sourced criticism, we can't possibly have neutral articles on
anyone.
The problem often is not that "they can't handle sourced criticism." The problem is that an article about a borderline-notable person consists of a stub written by a detractor, which contains nothing but negative minor minutia about their marriage or the one time they had a DUI, rather than what the person's actually done to be encyclopedic.
Instead of giving subjects the option to have their article deleted, we should focus on developing rules about irrelevant unduly weighted criticism of the type you describe here.