-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fred Bauder wrote: >> I asked whether raising the notability bar would improve the >> overall quality of BLPs. Do we have other ideas for preventative >> measures? > > The start of a poor biography is good news coverage of some > incident that occurred to a person, their 15 minutes of fame, or > infamy. Any other information about the person is not available, at > least not from any reliable published source. To avoid this would > require exclusion of biographies regarding persons about whom > information about their life, apart from an incident, is > unavailable. This would exclude a great deal of pornographic actresses and actors. Which I don't think is a bad thing, in fact. I'm far from a prude, but someone who is solely notable for appearing in a few pornographic films seems to contradict what our policy is regarding other inclusion categories; and these articles seem to have a higher-than-average incident of compliant rate, notably when personal information begins to appear on their articles.
Cary -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJrXMoyQg4JSymDYkRAt5CAJ9sOYAFCHxhM3rFbztoMTggdh1iogCffadt khnNvLaW51LtevFDpDWxMyU= =ZXP5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
