Steve Block wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
JAY JG wrote:
I've been have a months-long debate with another editor on this topic. I've been stating that we include people in "Criminals" categories if they have been convicted of a crime by an independent judiciary. The other editor insists that we have to decide (by some means) whether or not they have actually committed a crime, conviction is not enough a good enough yardstick. I'd be interested in other thoughts here.
I have a simple thought. My simple thought is that of course you are right. :-)
I agree with you, but community consensus doesn't. I recently tried to get the criminal categories renamed to include the words convicted but was told that was unworkable since Butch Cassiday was never convicted, or something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_Nove...
Well, I guess community consensus trumps NPOV ... except of course it doesn't. That would get a "don't be dense" category deletion.
- d.