James Farrar wrote:
That would be another way to go. Unless there is a published biography on the individual, our default is deletion. Again there will be exceptions - but we could let afd sort that out. We just change the default - you need a consensus for inclusion if there is no other biography in publication.
That seems like a sensible criterion - and there might be potential to extend that to classes of articles other than BLP.
I've always seen this as a rather horrid criterion. So what does this mean? Most sportsmen, most television stars, most musicians, many politicians - gone. And let's not even get started at the systematic bias issues inherent in this, especially in third world countries or nations with government-controlled media where the "biographies" we require simply wouldn't exist for reasons outside of our happy Western control.
-Jeff