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

[Charles Matthews]

On 27 March 2012 18:05, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, David Gerard wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> Anything which is *different* between BLP and policies for other articles,
> such as a no-eventualism policy, could conceivably be a benefit.
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> My complaint is about BLP rules that do not do this.
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I'm reminded of a story told me by a friend who used to work in PC support,
back in the day. He was once called out by a guy who'd deleted all the
files whose purpose he didn't understand, and wondered why his machine
didn't work. Please don't try this at home.

Charles

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