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

[Ken Arromdee]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Charles Matthews wrote:
> 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.

Why?

I clarified what I didn't think worked: BLP rules which say "do what you are
required to do anyway according to other rules, but try really hard this
time".  How exactly can such a rule ever being a benefit, and how did it
bring any benefits in this case?