-----Original Message----- From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 09:15 AM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Analysis of BLP issues (Jimmy Wales shouldreconsider)
On 22/04/07, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/04/07, doc doc.wikipedia@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. 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.
The objection to this one is entrenching systemic bias.
- d.
We are a compendium of existing knowledge. The body of existing knowledge suffers from grave defects.
Fred