[WikiEN-l] And now for a word on trivial BLPs

[Ken Arromdee]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Slim Virgin wrote:
> Perhaps a good way of looking at this is whether people who don't know
> the subject personally, and who are generally knowledgeable in a
> relevant field, would tend to recognize the subject by name or only by
> description. Would people who read about train crashes be likely to
> know the name Mary Smith, or would they only recognize the description
> "one of the 20 women who survived in the front carriage of train crash
> X"? If the former, have a bio; if only the latter, then confine
> material about that person to the article on train crash X. Otherwise
> *we* become responsible for making them more notable than they were,
> and we should be reporting notability established elsewhere, not
> establishing it ourselves.

I think people knowledgeable about either false rape accusations or
political correctness would know the name Crystal Gail Mangum.  Do you
support adding that back as an article?