On 22/04/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
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.
Indeed. Our systemic bias is bad enough now without entrenching it in this manner.
- d.