[WikiEN-l] Single incident 'biographies' - disallow??

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Jeff was arguing that we can't delete a biography which only contains 
negative material as "What about the astronaut who went cross country in 
an alleged
>> attempt to murder her jilted lover?  Guess what - her biography's going to
>> be based on that one incident, no matter what the eventual outcome.  This
>> isn't a bad thing, either - it's simply reality.

Now, that's a fair point. There may only be one incident that's 
newsworthy - and there may be no reason to exclude us reporting it.

But biography is by definition a record of someone life, not an 
incident. If the incident is encyclopedic and verifiable then we should 
have an article on the incident, and the individuals involved in it, but 
disallow a biography, since we have inadequate material for such.

If we don't have appropriate information for a biography, we shouldn't 
have a biography. And if all the information relates to the one 
incident, we should simply have an article on that.

Further, as has just been pointed out to me:

"The biggest argument in favor of relegating an incident involving
a person to a non-bio page, is that a bio page features the name
of the person in the title of the article. This causes the bio to
rank *much* higher in the search engine rankings when searching
for that person's name. By the time all the internal linking to
that bio is carried out inside of Wikipedia, you also have the weight
of anchor-text content added to its ranking. Presto! Number one
in a search for that name."

And that is where the problems begin

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