[WikiEN-l] Pity the admin....

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Peter Mackay wrote:
>>From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
>>[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Guy 
>>Chapman aka JzG
> 
>  
> 
>>...who has to close this mess:
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/R
>>obert_Baden-Powell%27s_sexual_orientation
>>
>>A whole article devoted to speculation in a couple of books 
>>on the sexuality of the founder of Scouting, apparently 
>>because nobody could agree how little of it should go in the 
>>main article.  
>>
>>The word count given to such speculation between the two 
>>articles, is, according to my rough and ready count, more or 
>>less equivalent to the combined count for his military career 
>>AND the founding of the Scout Movement.  Can we say "undue weight"?
> 
> 
> I was looking up some recent historical figure yesterday - can't remember
> who - and the second para of the article was devoted to speculation about
> his homosexuality. I thought that was really weird.

That wasn't Richard the Lionheart by any chance was it?

> I'm not uncomfortable
> with famous people being homosexual, but I'm just not sure that we need to
> give such prominence and weight. It's almost as if such people are being
> used as posthumous pin-up boys for modern day homosexual folk, when the
> reality is that we are writing biographical articles about the careers and
> achievements of these people, not about who poked whom. This information
> should go at the bottom, maybe in a trivia section.
> 

Or better yet, in a seperate article which lumps all of the various
speculations about a hundred different figures in history together on
one page, and *then* we will have a decent article.

And know, I'm not proposing it be called [[Historical figures who poked
people they shouldn't have]].

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