On 22/04/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)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.