Charles Matthews wrote:
NPOV is not negotiable. Any reliably-sourced facts
that truly are
required to write a neutral piece should be included.
The subject's name is still completely absent from
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_kid>, though, for ostensibly
BLP-based reasons. And I'm guessing even mentioning his name here on
this mailing list would cause some folks to get hostile (I originally
mentioned it in my first draft but decided it would be better to be
WP:POINTless just to be on the safe side. Ah, the chilling effect is so
_bracing_). It's one of the most basic facts imaginable about the guy
and a bajillion reliable sources for it can be found. I can see no NPOV
reason for excluding it.
But the whole
point of the BLP policy is to have a minimum standard of inclusion for
topics (excluding the prurient, and the sort of tittle-tattle that you
find in low-class blogging), as well as minimum standards for sourcing.
The article went through AfD twice, the issue of whether the topic's
worthy of inclusion is not particularly doubtful.
I'm usually quite quick to defend Wikipedia and the processes it uses,
but this sort of thing is ridiculous. Let's not make it any harder to
fix than it already is.