-----Original Message----- From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 08:45 AM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues (Jimmy Wales should reconsider)
OK. What seems a practical first move?
Deleting all living bios is not going to fly. It just won't be accepted.
The layer of barely-notable bios could be vanquished with little trouble. The tricky part is "what is notable?" It's not going to be possible to come up with a hardline definition that doesn't result in gross systemic bias, editors deleting like deranged robots or both.
Is a new deletion rule on living bios worth trying? It's the most politically viable idea I've heard so far.
- d.
If no one else has ever published an article which is about the person, as opposed to mentioning them in some regard, that should be a clue.
Fred