[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 09:15 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues (Jimmy Wales shouldreconsider)
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>On 22/04/07, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>> > > Fred
>
>> > 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.
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>
>The objection to this one is entrenching systemic bias.
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>- d.

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Fred