[WikiEN-l] Looking up death dates in government death

[Nick Wilkins]

On 5/2/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/2/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > As for someone arguing that "we think they're dead therefore BLP rules
> > don't apply", hit them with a damn big stick, that's just being silly.
>
> Huh? How does "biography of living persons" apply to dead people?


I believe there was context mentioning cases where the person may or may not
be dead.  "We think they're dead" rather than "They are definitely dead".

But in any case, [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons]] for the most
part doesn't actually introduce new rules.  It just says that we need to
enforce existing rules on verifiability, original research, and neutral
point of view extremely strictly (especially in that we don't trust to
eventualism on those articles).  Saying we should *consciously* relax those
rules on a particular article just because the person happens to have
(possibly) died is indeed somewhat silly.

-- Jonel