joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
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.
It's not a matter of "acceptance." See [[WP:BLP1E]]. If someone is only notable because of one event, then there should be an article about the event but not a biography that we can't source.
If they're notable for, say, significant contributions to one subject area, that's different; but there should already be material we could source from to create a BLP-compliant biography article, and it wouldn't have been deleted in the first place.
--Darkwind