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

[Charles Matthews]

On 26 March 2012 19:11, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, David Gerard wrote:
>
>> For some reason a lot of BLP policy is like that: "here we have the same
>>> policy we use for everything else, but we really mean it this time".
>>>  This
>>> never works, of course.
>>>
>> I think that's an overstatement - it sometimes doesn't work, which is
>> quite distinct from "never works".
>>
>
> "The policy doesn't work" doesn't mean that all BLPs are bad, it just means
> that they are *as* bad as they would have been without the policy.  The
> cases you refer to as it "working" are cases where other policies work and
> these polices provide no extra benefit.
>

Reading what you have written above, and then

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Chris
Butler_(private investigator)

and other serious discussions on that page, I'm unconvinced that you
actually have a point here.

Charles