[WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 March 2012 14:04, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm posting here an argument I made in a recent AfD, explaining why I
>> think more stringent notability requirements are needed for
>> biographical articles:
>
> And I see that the specific example you're talking about is:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jim_Hawkins_%28radio_presenter%29
>
> This is a rather broad and (as I've noted) hideously vague proposed
> solution to a very specific problem, viz. someone who is apparently
> well within notability guidelines wanting an article deleted because
> he doesn't have control of it, and is abusive towards anyone who tries
> to help.

I've written on this topic before, well before this AfD. If you want,
I can dig up the diffs, but I'm looking at the general case here, not
this specific one (I'll post a response to your previous post that I
had been drafting). I should have made it clearer that this is a
proposal intended for all BLPs, not any specific one (but I thought
that was obvious). And yes, I know any concrete proposal will have to
be proposed on-wiki. I just wanted to bounce ideas around here.

Carcharoth