[WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues (Jimmy Wales shouldreconsider)

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard at gmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 08:45 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues (Jimmy Wales should	reconsider)
>
>OK. What seems a practical first move?
>
>Deleting all living bios is not going to fly. It just won't be accepted.
>
>The layer of barely-notable bios could be vanquished with little
>trouble. The tricky part is "what is notable?" It's not going to be
>possible to come up with a hardline definition that doesn't result in
>gross systemic bias, editors deleting like deranged robots or both.
>
>Is a new deletion rule on living bios worth trying? It's the most
>politically viable idea I've heard so far.
>
>
>- d.

If no one else has ever published an article which is about the person, as opposed to mentioning them in some regard, that should be a clue.

Fred