Amgine wrote:
For these and other reasons, en.wp should develop policy limiting living persons articles to primary career facts and academic achievements, current positions held or endeavors, and minimal personal facts. By presenting a minimal set of biographic facts the community can circumvent a large number of internal and external conflicts, whilst avoiding maintenance issues and keeping the articles relevant until such time as the subjects may be viewed in historical context.
I think that way of putting it seems a bit extreme. In the example under discussion [[Tom Delay]], it seems pretty clear that the article is much stronger due to the inclusion of much more than some minimal set of facts.
I say this despite the rather obvious "hatchet job" nature of the bio there at this moment. This is one of the worst political bios I have seen in a long time in Wikipedia.
Tom Delay suffers from the problem of being unpopular with both the left and the right.
--Jimbo