On 22/04/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond(a)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. And let's not even get started at the systematic
bias issues inherent in this, especially in third world countries or
nations with government-controlled media where the "biographies" we
require simply wouldn't exist for reasons outside of our happy Western
control.
Indeed. Our systemic bias is bad enough now without entrenching it in
this manner.
- d.