On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:22:35 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
If you want to propose being equally "ruthless" for fictional characters I want to see a reason that's just as strong.
Sure. They are the number one source of original research, banned by policy, and these articles have misled countless editors into believing that (a) "I read it on teh internets" is adequate sourcing and (b) we should tailor policy on verifiability, original research and neutrality to ensure that these articles are not impacted.
I'd say that was a pretty bad - and pretty big - problem. BLP tends to affect one individual badly but be easily, this affects a big chunk of the project in a way which is making it actively worse because any improvement to any article is resisted by reference to similar cruft in another one.
Guy (JzG)