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

[Ken Arromdee]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, David Gerard wrote:
> The key point to remember about BLPs is: no eventualism. If an article
> about someone dead 200 years says something nasty and wrong, that's
> not great, but it's not urgent. If an article about a living person
> says something nasty and wrong, that is urgent, and we can't just
> assume the wiki process will on balance fix it in the fullness of
> time. It's the simplest possible way of doing it and it's a vast
> improvement over the previous situation. It's not perfection, but
> calling it a "failure" is hyperbolic.

Anything which is *different* between BLP and policies for other articles,
such as a no-eventualism policy, could conceivably be a benefit.

My complaint is about BLP rules that do not do this.