[WikiEN-l] BLP conundrum

[Slim Virgin]

On 4/25/07, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> I recently came across the following article:
> _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Sylvia_Browne_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Sylvia_Browne)  ...

> ... Still, do we want to open the door to these kinds of articles? Criticisms  of
> Sylvia Browne could lead to Criticisms of Uri Geller to Criticisms of George
> Bush to Criticisms of Tom Cruise to Criticisms of [pick your favorite]. The
> very  hypothesis of the article is POV. Surely, this is not what we are here
> for.
>
> I'd really like some input. Ideally, it should be merged, but the precedent
> this poses should also be mentioned.

The original article isn't that long, so they should definitely by
merged. It's bad enough having a separate criticism section in a BLP,
because they end up as POV magnets. To have a separate criticism
article is asking for trouble.

Sarah