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

[Andreas Kolbe]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I think a serious "position paper" on BLP is possible.  There are several
> aspects:
>
> * We are currently not very good at recognising when biographical
> information is "indiscriminate" (see
> [[WP:INDISCRIMINATE<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE
> >]]).
> We could get better at that, as a way of addressing what Andreas is calling
> ADAM.
>
> *We can certainly look at special notability guidelines for classes of
> individuals (e.g. politicians, employees of the media, entertainers,
> sportspeople, reality TV stars). Some divide-and-conquer to understand the
> more problematic areas in their own terms would be good.
>
> *We are currently lousy at judging "ephemeral notability", and issues
> around it seem to be classic time-sinks. There is a bigger picture here,
> and digging around in older biographical dictionaries can help to explain
> what is going on.
>
> *Certainly extending control of revisions to all BLP pages is an option to
> consider; naturally this is a major step requiring wide community support,
> and that in turn probably requires a reasonable amount of preparation, not
> phrased in too much immoderate language.
>



There is currently another Pending Changes RfC underway at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Request_for_Comment_2012

Andreas





> *Tools and techniques. I'm a fan of the idea of using "Related changes"  on
> chunks of BLP, so that patrolling say 1% at a time becomes easier. Hiving
> off BLP into its own community isn't a solution that is clearly going to
> work, let's say. Technical concentration on the material, on the other
> hand, might do quite a lot to highlight the difficult cases.
>
> Charles
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