[WikiEN-l] BLPs: Wikipedia entry nearly scuppers rugby player's career

[Nathan]

If you're not understanding the point, I'll simplify it - BLPs are important
because of the impact they can have, as demonstrated by this guy and his
article and the effect it nearly had on his career.

To answer your question - probably not, no. If there is a two page article
about someone in the Times, and midway through page 2 it says that he
inherited his brown eyes from his father, that is an example of a fact found
in a reliable source that does not belong in the article. Salaciousness
isn't the standard for inclusion of a detail in an encyclopedic entry.

Nathan

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:03 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 9/30/2008 7:52:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> nawrich at gmail.com writes:
>
> Our  biographies of living people, folks with families and careers,
> can become  the major reference on their lives - so our vigilance on these
> articles is  of extreme real world importance. This event is a very good
> example of that  principle.>>
>
>
> ----------------------
> Not following your point.
> If there are reliable sources stating that "After an all-night drinking
> binge he paraded nude through St Mary's Convent startling the sisters at
>  Mass"
>
> Then it should be in his article right?
>
>
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