Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/10/06, jf_wikipedia@mac.com jf_wikipedia@mac.com wrote:
My concern is that people are using Category:Criminals // Category:American Criminals as a way to push negative POVs aginst such persons (regardless if the person is alive or dead). The reason for my concern is that it indiscriminately group people as diverse as person that was convicted from stealing a pair of jeans at Wal- Mart with serial killers, rapists and the like.
I believe there's already a guideline on this, or at least on the use of lists of such things. I think we actually have a guideline against the creation of vilification lists - vilification categories should probably go with it.
Now, how about "notorious criminals"? Hmm. "Famous criminals"? Might be different - at least you're saying the person's crime has to be famous.
You can't do those, they introduce POV to the category, and categories should be unambiguous. I personally feel the category and all sub-cats meed to be renamed "convicted of a crime", "served a prison sentence" or deleted. If vilification applies to lists, it should apply to categories and that might be the best place to move this on. There's been deletion debates on these categories before, I seem to remember participating in them, but I can't remember what stance I took then.
Steve block