On 7/19/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
So, I've been going through the endless barrel of fun that is [[Category:Rapists]], slapping prod tags on the people of no encyclopedic significance ("X priest got two years in jail for groping some choirboys") and, in a couple of cases, encountering entirely unsourced articles. Perhaps the most obvious of these was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedley_Alley&oldid=64313689
What ought we to do with them? I mean, policy is aggressively attack anything unsourced that would be defamation if it was false; where there were other avenues of notability, I've done that.
But in this case, when we remove all forms of the negative material, we get
Sedley Alley (August 16, 1955 – June 28, 2006) was married to a military person
...which is in and of itself a candidate for speedy deletion, though I suspect doing that would get me brickbatted for nefarious deletionism.
Um, did you try to find sources, or did you just remove stuff that didn't already have a source listed? What was your source for his death date? Because it didn't take me more than a few seconds to find tons of sources on this person.
By the way, it's not possible to defame dead people, is it?
Anthony