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?