On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Delirium wrote:
Not to mention that incorrect information about living people is neither the only nor the most damaging sort of incorrect information we can have in our articles. The potentially most damaging and inflammatory information is generally incorrect allegations in articles relation to nationalist disputes. So, in addition to removing all biographies on living people, I'd suggest we remove all biographies on currently active disputes, recent wars, and of course currently extant countries, ethnic groups, and religions.
The difference is that ethnic disputes are widely discussed; the Wikipedia article is only a small part of the discussion and won't have much of an effect that thousands of books, magazines, and web pages can't.
For marginally notable people, Wikipedia may be the #1 source for information about that person.