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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