On 04/04/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Denny Colt"
How about something like "Living persons clean-up" or some similar wording, which can be used with a variant clean-up template on BLP articles. I.e., if you see one that needs it, but either don't know how, don't have the time to, or whatever reason, can immediately flag an article as Very High Priority for clean-up.
This is the one case in which we actually want people to make drive-by deletions, and ask questions afterwards. That's one issue. A second is that creating a template that says 'potential libel here, come look' could have a downside.
A template is probably not such a great idea for that reason :-)
There's the BLP Noticeboard, WP:BLPN, which I've found just the place for not-utterly-urgent cleanup.
Drive-by deletion should be fine, there are 1000 admins who can look over the deleted article (and erroneous speedies can be reversed without fuss *if* it isn't actually a problem). I've occasionally taken an article out and shot it, and listed objections on the deleted page suggesting interested admins double-check me just in case.
- d.