On 29/03/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Certainly. While the dead cannot themselves sue, read [[Julian Bell]] for the high-profile case of [[Hong Ying]]; in which a Chinese court found that the dead could be defamed (by a work of fiction). We have _never_ allowed general arguments on respectfulness to condition what we will allow in enWP.
I'd say it's relevant - respect for the *reader*.
Is the article good and useful?
Note that WP:BLP works as it is based in being a particularly hard-arsed application of the extant fundamental editorial policies regarding NPOV, NOR and verifiability - or NOR and ATT. That is, we do the decent thing by doing the very best we can on the article itself.
- d.