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

[James Farrar]

On 22/04/07, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Fred
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> That would be another way to go. Unless there is a published biography
> on the individual, our default is deletion. Again there will be
> exceptions - but we could let afd sort that out. We just change the
> default - you need a consensus for inclusion if there is no other
> biography in publication.

That seems like a sensible criterion - and there might be potential to
extend that to classes of articles other than BLP.