[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Opt Out for Not So Notable Biographies

[Slim Virgin]

On 4/8/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/04/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One way to determine notability sufficient to justify a Wikipedia
> > biography is whether that person has already had a biography published
> > by a reliable third-party source, either in a form of a newspaper
> > article or a book. If we were to adopt a "no first biography"
> > criterion, it would ensure not only that our subjects are truly
> > notable, but would also help to ensure accuracy, because we'd have a
> > published biography to base the Wikipedia article on.
>
>
> Encourages systemic bias. Wikipedia suffers badly enough from that.
>
Would it do that any more than the current NPOV policy? The published
biography could be in any language and from any type of publication
regarded as reliable in the country of origin.