Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) wrote:
Jeff, do you believe there is ANY respect in which articles making claims about living people should be treated differently from everything else?
I think we're leaning too far toward the "shoot first" mentality, honestly, and when it results in a complete deletion, that's a problem. Remove possibly libellious commentary? Okay. Make no effort on sourcing while doing it? Not as comfortable. Delete the article entirely instead of stubbing it? Certainly not okay in my mind.
I have no problem with having some sort of thing in place for biographies, but BLP ain't it - it was done in the heat of the moment, and I think the "consensus" is more of a "Jimbo wants it" than anything resembling a true consensus, which isn't great.
With that said, it ''is'' policy, and it isn't going anywhere, so...
-Jeff