If we let people delete articles on themselves, they will delete those articles not closely conforming to their own idea of themselves, and this gives them a veto power over content. No BLP will then be other than promotional. In my experience the problem with most little-watched articles, bio or otherwise, is much more likely to be promotionalism than abuse.
It would be better to have a rule to never take the views of the subject in consideration about whether we should have an article, unless an exception can be made according to other Wikipedia rules, in particular, Do No Harm. People have the right to a fair article, but not to a favorable one. I agree that the ratio of editors to articles is much too low. What we need is not fewer bios, but more editors. Encouraging new people to work on BLPs is the solution. On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rande_Gerber&diff=416351133&oldid=393382165 -- David Goodman DGG at the enWP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
