[WikiEN-l] Changing the AfD process (Was: Re: [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again)

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/20/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Primarily I'm thinking about living biographies.  If an article is
> > substantially a description of events in the life of a living person,
> > then we should perhaps consider "if in doubt, delete".  We already
> > have a "Living people" category so in most cases it should be easy
> > enough to identify such articles.
> >
>
> Groovy so delete every article on an election (bound to have a
> negative portrayal of someone). I rather doubt that le Pen likes our
> article on the last french presidential election.

I think you're reaching here. "United Kingdom general election,
February 1974" is not in  category "Living people".  It focuses on the
events and only mentions the people as participants.


>
>
> > I think it's still running.  Generally those articles aren't
> > biographies, however, so I don't really understand the relevance, if
> > any.
>
> They generally contain biographical details such as say alumni or
> stuff about the head.
>

Such material would be generally unproblematic and any problems that
did crop up could be handled by editing.  A bit like the general
election article above.