On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 March 2012 14:04, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm posting here an argument I made in a recent AfD, explaining why I think more stringent notability requirements are needed for biographical articles:
And I see that the specific example you're talking about is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jim_Hawkins_%2...
This is a rather broad and (as I've noted) hideously vague proposed solution to a very specific problem, viz. someone who is apparently well within notability guidelines wanting an article deleted because he doesn't have control of it, and is abusive towards anyone who tries to help.
I've written on this topic before, well before this AfD. If you want, I can dig up the diffs, but I'm looking at the general case here, not this specific one (I'll post a response to your previous post that I had been drafting). I should have made it clearer that this is a proposal intended for all BLPs, not any specific one (but I thought that was obvious). And yes, I know any concrete proposal will have to be proposed on-wiki. I just wanted to bounce ideas around here.
Carcharoth