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.
I don't think so, given there is already a consensus on notability for all of those - see [[WP:BIO]].