[WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs at eskimo.com]
>Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:26 AM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues
>
>David Gerard wrote:
>> On 22/04/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
>>> James Farrar wrote:
>>>>> Unless there is a published biography on the individual,
>>>>> our default is deletion.
>>>>
>>>> That seems like a sensible criterion - and there might be potential to
>>>> extend that to classes of articles other than BLP.
>>
>>> I've always seen this as a rather horrid criterion.  So what does this
>>> mean?  Most sportsmen, most television stars, most musicians, many
>>> politicians - gone.  And let's not even get started at the systematic
>>> bias issues inherent in this...
>>
>> Indeed. Our systemic bias is bad enough now without entrenching it in
>> this manner.
>
>Wait, wait, wait.  A little while back, the notion was that
>biographies would be deleted *if the subject requested it* and
>there were no other published biography.  If the "if the subject
>requested it" clause were reinstated, would the notion be so
>destabilizing?

That's good, the complaints often come regarding the golems constructed from scraps of stray media coverage.

Fred