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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 04:21 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>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.

That is an appropriate resolution. Rather than an article about a not notable person involved in a notable incident we have an article about the incident. What else is there to say about this person that is not malicious?

Fred