On 23/05/07, Trebor Rowntree <trebor.rowntree(a)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)