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

[Andrew Gray]

On 22/04/07, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.

As long as we don't go down the tempting but misleading path of
construing "biography" as "a published monograph" rather than "a
reasonably lengthy article which treats them biographically as opposed
to a news subject", then this sounds a good first cut.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk