[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales should reconsider

[Ray Saintonge]

Bryan Derksen wrote:

>doc wrote:
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>>Most of the real BLP issues group round biographies of little known 
>>people. Bios that be nature can only ever have information about the bit 
>>part they played in some small-town scandal, and thus can never be a 
>>balanced 'biography' of the person's life. Bios that highlight news that 
>>otherwise would be forgotten. Bios that are damaging because they may 
>>are the only public biography of the person in existence. Bios that by 
>>nature are under-watched. Bios where few will know enough to spot spin 
>>and hatchet jobs.
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>Actually, when I was browsing through that list of {{unreferenced}}
>biographies last night I didn't come across a single one of these. The
>only person I found whose notoriety was due to a "scandal" actually
>looked pretty significant (not just some small-town thing) and had a lot
>of information about him out on the web.
>
>The vast majority of the little-known people with biographies were minor
>sports figures, singers, actors, models, race car drivers, etc. whose
>articles were completely non-controversial and didn't mention any
>scandalous events.
>
This is consistent with what I would have expected, and is contrary to 
the oft proclaimed notion that we are the town scandal sheet.  It's just 
that the scandalous minority takes up the majority of time.

Ec