Lower priority than defamation, to be sure. But I think this is a
large
and growing problem.
Here is a typical example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeli_Mateo
This is someone who *lost* on Philippine Idol, the Philippines
version
of "Pop Idol" or "American Idol". The entire bio has no references,
the
photo is almost certainly a copyvio (I would delete it now, but I
want
people to take a quick look at it first). "Greenarcher" claims to
have
created it, but unless he is the official photographer for the show, this seems quite unlikely.
As it stands, I don't think there is much that can be done about this article other than deletion.
Because a verifiable stub isn't worth it? I mean, seriously. There's little I dislike more about the current Wikipedia line of thinking like this one, where we predict that an article can't possibly be expanded, and then decide to remove the article based on that. Never mind how well known the person is, forget that there's almost certainly local papers and sources that we may not be able to read right at the moment, but certainly have the information to flesh this out. No, we'll just dismiss it as "fancruft" (a word I never thought I'd hear you use) and go along on our merry way.
Yikes.
-Jeff