Charles Matthews wrote:
NPOV is not negotiable. Any reliably-sourced facts that truly are required to write a neutral piece should be included.
The subject's name is still completely absent from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_kid, though, for ostensibly BLP-based reasons. And I'm guessing even mentioning his name here on this mailing list would cause some folks to get hostile (I originally mentioned it in my first draft but decided it would be better to be WP:POINTless just to be on the safe side. Ah, the chilling effect is so _bracing_). It's one of the most basic facts imaginable about the guy and a bajillion reliable sources for it can be found. I can see no NPOV reason for excluding it.
But the whole point of the BLP policy is to have a minimum standard of inclusion for topics (excluding the prurient, and the sort of tittle-tattle that you find in low-class blogging), as well as minimum standards for sourcing.
The article went through AfD twice, the issue of whether the topic's worthy of inclusion is not particularly doubtful.
I'm usually quite quick to defend Wikipedia and the processes it uses, but this sort of thing is ridiculous. Let's not make it any harder to fix than it already is.