On 5/23/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/05/07, Trebor Rowntree trebor.rowntree@gmail.com wrote:
But where is the fundamental content policy that advocates deletion of _sourced_ articles about individuals famous for negative reasons? I'm
not
saying it's wrong, but I don't see it in the fundamental content
policies.
Is the fame itself notable? This is explained in some detail in WP:BLP.
<snip> It's not just sourcing - it's that the incidents or events themselves are notable. And the article doesn't have to be written tomorrow, and insistence on keeping it in RIGHT NOW is deeply missing the point.
I broadly agree. But I'm still not seeing anything related to _deletion_ of these biographies in BLP. It says to "include *only* material relevant to their notability", and to pare back to a version that "completely sourced, neutral, and on-topic"; it doesn't actually say to zap them unless they're unsourced. At the moment, BLP is being quoted in support of positions in situations it doesn't explicitly say anything about.