[WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review

[David Gerard]

On 23/05/07, Trebor Rowntree <trebor.rowntree at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, repeating myself here. The lesson from Siegenthaler was to source
> source source, and delete anything which wasn't. It didn't (and BLP doesn't)
> say anything about deletion of articles about individuals famous for
> negative reasons.


The point is that isn't particularly fame. The incident is famous, the
person's pretty much only famous in association with the incident. For
a local example, there's an article at [[Essjay controversy]] but only
a pointer at [[Ryan Jordan]] (which is a disambig).

The Crystal whatsit article is now a redirect to the incident of fame
(and I'm fine with that; I zapped it because the single-purpose
editors were so rabid about it). But her *grade point averages* sure
as hell don't belong in the article. That's what I mean by
immaculately sourced attack article. Her GPAs? What on earth?


- d.