[WikiEN-l] An example of a bad biography

[Jimmy Wales]

Delirium wrote:
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> The article has never, even once, contained any useful information about 
>> the victim.  It has always been a stub.  A quick look around the web 
>> suggests that it will never be more than a stub.
> 
> I'm not sure what you intend to prove with this straw-man. You found one 
> article that has been on Wikipedia for nine days, that should have been 
> deleted, but hasn't been. Nobody's even objected to its deletion! 
> Considering we have over 2 million articles, this is unsurprising.

It is not a straw man.  It is routine.  And it hurts real people.

To you, it is one of 2 million articles.  To the victim, it is a top 
google hit on his own name.

But in any event, I am not trying to prove anything.  I am proposing 
that we have a long way to go before we can feel happy about the 
situation with respect to real people being victimized by vandals. 
People are using Wikipedia to carry out vendettas against people.  I 
make no apologies for saying that we should think hard about how to stop 
that from happening.

--Jimbo