It did evolve from that, and it made very good sense in that context, to avoid having the name of a victim given undue & unfortunate prominence. It makes sense in some other BLP contexts also, but its expansion to a general rule is what was absurd. BLP1E should, in my opinion, have been confined to a convenient way of explaining NOT TABLOID; that we do not write articles about someone whose involvement in something was incidental of of no actual importance.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
Didn't that evolve from the "murdered people" standard, where instead of having an article on a person who was murdered, you have an article on the crime? Not that such a standard was completely adopted, I don't think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murders
That is what I mean, though a lot of that is tabloid-ish journalism.
Carcharoth
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