G'day Guy,
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:32:20 +1000, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
We attempt to have neutral, unbiased articles about the utter dregs of humanity, the worst scum the human race has produced. We don't say (sorry) "Mr Hitler was a bad man, so we don't need to follow NPOV"
Last time I checked, Mr Hitler was (a) dead and (b) dead famous.
Just to make sure I'm being clear here, I was comparing the argument (which, it seems, Anthony was not making, but never mind) that we don't need to worry about any concept of privacy or "human dignity" because Mr Peppers Is A Bad Man with the repeatedly-discredited argument that we don't need to worry about writing a NPOV article about certain historical figures because Those Historical Figures Were Bad Men.
The, ahem, badness of the subject has no bearing on how good our article should be --- or, in some cases, whether or not we should have an article at all.