[WikiEN-l] defused timebomb

Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 07:23:34 UTC 2007


I just blanked, and deleted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_people_responsible_for_a_death

We had names of many famous people, stating they were responsible for
someone else dying.
** Not a single reference **

I was told that I should have AFD it instead

The potential for libel was huge, afd was likely to come as no
consensus or delete.
Wikimedia can't take the risk of being sued for the sake of process.

So I deleted the entry to hide history, and drop a note stating should
anybody readd content it must be with references.

Probably many people will complain and ask for my head, just telling
you people why I did it.

-- drini



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