On 14/11/2007, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
There seems to be a general bias against articles not about the Anglosphere. I doubt the appointed head of some major US or UK government agency would've been similarly tagged with db-bio and the explanation "appointed bureaucrat?"
The guy is in the Anglosphere or at least is if you read a certain scurrilous rag.
I'd propose that people should be *very* careful about speedy-tagging people and things from countries they're not from, especially non-English-speaking countries, unless they're either obvious crap (i.e. an autobiography by a high school student) or the person has first done some research to establish that the thing is not notable even in that country---keeping in mind that the fact that a German person is not well-known _in the US_ is not a valid reason for speedy deletion.
Civil servants are always a tricky one since while they may wield considerable power they don't tend to make the front pages much (they may appear more frequently on the political pages and the like).