[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

[Nathan]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> According to Dominic's quote, it says default to delete if the article is
> *not* a marginally notable BLP. Not a very elegant way of changing the
> policy, but perhaps it was intended to slip past wide notice. While deleting
> marginally notable BLPs has become more common, even where no consensus to
> delete exists, the proposal did fail.
>
> As far as granting significant weight to the wishes of a subject? Subject
> request has consistently been rejected as a basis for deleting an article,
> and many comments in the deletion discussions I've read have even rejected
> lending weight to these requests in any way.
>
> Nathan
>


I'm sorry - the quote is default to *keep* if the article is not a
marginally notable BLP - which, through negatives, means default to delete
for marginally notable BLPs.



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