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

[Trebor Rowntree]

On 5/23/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?


Yeah, of course. Redirects often seem the best (or least painful) way of
handling these articles. But there is a line. [[Seung-Hui Cho]] (or an
equivalent living person)