On 5/23/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/05/07, Trebor Rowntree trebor.rowntree@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, repeating myself here. The lesson from Siegenthaler was to source source source, and delete anything which wasn't. It didn't (and BLP
doesn't)
say anything about deletion of articles about individuals famous for negative reasons.
The point is that isn't particularly fame. The incident is famous, the person's pretty much only famous in association with the incident. For a local example, there's an article at [[Essjay controversy]] but only a pointer at [[Ryan Jordan]] (which is a disambig).
The Crystal whatsit article is now a redirect to the incident of fame (and I'm fine with that; I zapped it because the single-purpose editors were so rabid about it). But her *grade point averages* sure as hell don't belong in the article. That's what I mean by immaculately sourced attack article. Her GPAs? What on earth?
Yeah, of course. Redirects often seem the best (or least painful) way of handling these articles. But there is a line. [[Seung-Hui Cho]] (or an equivalent living person)