On 8/14/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, George Herbert wrote:
(apparently) A google search finds skeletons in RFA candidate's closet. Deleted as BLP (probably mistaken application of BLP, but perhaps legit NPA or privacy issue), restored, cleaned up, still there right now.
The BLP article says that unsourced contentious material about living people should be removed from articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space. A RFA is, I believe, in project space. Most Google searches don't produce sources that count as reliable sources by Wikipedia standards. So it's unsourced contentious material and needs to be removed under BLP.
I think that it's a novel interpretation to extend that from "biographical article subjects" to "Wikipedia contributors".
Wikipedia is not a reliable source (specifically disclaimed); your logic, taken to its conclusion, would suggest that we cannot use negative incidents in our own edit histories as discussion fodder for RFAs.