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

[Trebor Rowntree]

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

> 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?


Crap, sorry, computer fouled up. There is a line. Seung-Hui Cho is famous
for one incident yet gets a lengthy article filling in details well beyond
what he is notable for, for instance. (I know he's dead; there's probably a
better example out there.)