joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Luna <lunasantin(a)gmail.com>om>:
It could be something for us to take into
account, no? If the
deletion of an
article on grounds of notability draws widespread and/or mainstream media
attention, it seems worth taking a second look. There's still questions of
maintainability (if all we can reliably source about a person is "media got
pissed off when Wikipedia deleted their article," BLP is still a
pretty dire
concern, say).
As I've attempted to explain before, BLP as a privacy concern doesn't
make sense
if the person wants an article. There are exceptional cases like the
Archimedes
Plutonium example- Archie wanted an article as far as people could tell but
he's also likely has a serious mental problem. However, it doesn't
make sense
in general to make such a BLP claim when the person wanted an article.
Furthermore, I suspect that if this sort of situation did end up occurring a
likely side effect would be additional material getting included in the
reliable sources since no one is going to write an article of the
form "Random
No Name X had their Wikipedia article deleted. And we aren't going
to tell you
anything aboutX at all."
BLP's privacy component isn't at all what would be the problem in that
kind of case. Instead, I'd think we'd run into more problems with the
"source it or don't say it" component of BLP.
If the only reliable sources cover the subject in reference to a
controversy about the article itself, then per BLP, that would be the
only thing possible to discuss in detail in the article. Yes, the
sources discussing the article controversy will mention some *very
basic* facts about the subject; but we wouldn't really have enough to
write a truly comprehensive encyclopedic article.
--Darkwind
Yes, but that's true for many articles and isn't a reason not to have
an article
. We need to accept the fact that for many people, even fairly
prominent people,
we will not have much beyond basic biographical sketches for the material that
is tangential to what makes them notable.