> -----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
That would not preclude an article about the movie, if notable, although only a few films spring to mind. And the name of the actor can be mentioned but ought not be a redlink, unless the person's private life is notable and the subject of substantial information published in reliable sources. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
