-----Original Message----- From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs@eskimo.com] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:26 AM To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues
David Gerard wrote:
On 22/04/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
James Farrar wrote:
Unless there is a published biography on the individual, our default is deletion.
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...
Indeed. Our systemic bias is bad enough now without entrenching it in this manner.
Wait, wait, wait. A little while back, the notion was that biographies would be deleted *if the subject requested it* and there were no other published biography. If the "if the subject requested it" clause were reinstated, would the notion be so destabilizing?
That's good, the complaints often come regarding the golems constructed from scraps of stray media coverage.
Fred
On 22/04/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs@eskimo.com]
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...
Indeed. Our systemic bias is bad enough now without entrenching it in this manner.
Wait, wait, wait. A little while back, the notion was that biographies would be deleted *if the subject requested it* and there were no other published biography. If the "if the subject requested it" clause were reinstated, would the notion be so destabilizing?
That's good, the complaints often come regarding the golems constructed from scraps of stray media coverage.
Could be usable.
(And I've seen - and shot on sight - the sort of articles Fred describes.)
- d.