charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com wrote:
Low priority, for me, except in cases of defamation.
But it also
depends on other things. [[Bob Dylan]] should have everything nailed
down with sources. The latest boy band - not so clear.
Lower priority than defamation, to be sure. But I think this is a large
and growing problem.
Here is a typical example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeli_Mateo
This is someone who *lost* on Philippine Idol, the Philippines version
of "Pop Idol" or "American Idol". The entire bio has no references,
the
photo is almost certainly a copyvio (I would delete it now, but I want
people to take a quick look at it first). "Greenarcher" claims to have
created it, but unless he is the official photographer for the show,
this seems quite unlikely.
The text is very much non-NPOV, and I have not yet done a check, but if
I had to guess, it is a straight ripoff from another website.
This is a classic example of fancruft of the worst sort. There is
virtually no chance that this article will ever improve, unless Ms.
Mateo becomes actually famous. (This could happen! And if it did, we
could have a good article about her.)
As it stands, I don't think there is much that can be done about this
article other than deletion.
--Jimbo