[WikiEN-l] Living people patrol

[daniwo59 at aol.com]

The following is a proposal that I would like to set forth. 
 
Based on phone calls to the office and OTRS, it seems to me that one of our  
biggest problems remains Living People. This has several sides to it:
 
1. People who have nonsense added to their articles.
2. People who have  articles but shouldn't.
3. People who want their articles deleted.
4.  People insisting that we create articles about them.
5. PR agencies adding  crud to articles about their clients.
6. Other. 
 
RC Patrol is doing a phenomenal job, but the fact is that the task is  
overwhelming. We are getting close to 2 edits a second, i.e., over 100 edits a  
minute, and we are still growing. While it is possible to remove the obvious  
crap, more subtle problems may be sneaking in. 
 
I would therefore like to suggest a separate division of the RC Patrol  
called The Living People Control. They would be charged with tagging new  articles 
in Recent Changes with Living People when appropriate (and removing  people 
when dead), and for reviewing the Living People category specifically  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3
ALiving_people  here]. 
 
Obviously, this is only a suggestion. I would like to know what people  think.

I have also created a page about this at [[Wikipedia:Living people  patrol]]
 
Danny