On 02/05/07, Nick Wilkins nlwilkins@gmail.com wrote:
But in any case, [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons]] for the most part doesn't actually introduce new rules. It just says that we need to enforce existing rules on verifiability, original research, and neutral point of view extremely strictly (especially in that we don't trust to eventualism on those articles). Saying we should *consciously* relax those rules on a particular article just because the person happens to have (possibly) died is indeed somewhat silly.
Bingo.
"I think we should conclude they're dead so I can be sloppy" is never a good argument.