Ken Arromdee wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Suppose that our [[Pope Benedict XVI]] article were found to contain the sentence "Bennie is a homosexual drug user".>>
Sure because it's a negative controversial statement. However called Jaron a "film director" is not a negative statement. It's neutral at best. Most people would consider it actually sort-of positive.
You've outsmarted yourself with respect to literally following rules. From WP:BLP:
# Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons # whether the material is negative, positive, or just questionable # should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion
Look carefully at that middle line. It does NOT have to be negative in order for it to be removed.
Bizarrely, the footnote at the end of this sentence cites a Jimmy Wales post that isn't even about biographies, and proposes the (never adopted, extremist) viewpoint that every single unsourced fact in Wikipedia should be removed immediately. I would say that can be safely ignored.
-Mark