doc wrote:
Most of the real BLP issues group round
biographies of little known
people. Bios that be nature can only ever have information about the bit
part they played in some small-town scandal, and thus can never be a
balanced 'biography' of the person's life. Bios that highlight news that
otherwise would be forgotten. Bios that are damaging because they may
are the only public biography of the person in existence. Bios that by
nature are under-watched. Bios where few will know enough to spot spin
and hatchet jobs.
Actually, when I was browsing through that list of {{unreferenced}}
biographies last night I didn't come across a single one of these. The
only person I found whose notoriety was due to a "scandal" actually
looked pretty significant (not just some small-town thing) and had a lot
of information about him out on the web.
The vast majority of the little-known people with biographies were minor
sports figures, singers, actors, models, race car drivers, etc. whose
articles were completely non-controversial and didn't mention any
scandalous events.
This is consistent with what I would have expected, and is contrary to
the oft proclaimed notion that we are the town scandal sheet. It's just
that the scandalous minority takes up the majority of time.
Ec