Personally, I don't put too much stock into timezone-based editing-habit data as a means of figuring out where a person lives, particularly if the person is self-employed, unemployed, or employed in the porn industry, which seems to describe a fairly large percentage of WP'ers. I myself am typing this at 3:22 AM CST, which is when most people in the UK are just arriving at their offices or shops or whatever it is they do. People in the Far East are on their way home, and of course, people living in the Kuiper belt probably all froze to death the instant they stepped out of the airlock.
I must be getting really jaded, too, because I'm pretty sure 3 years ago I would have seen something like this and been completely fascinated by it, but now I'm just thinking, "oh no, not another one..."
Mind you, there have been some really positive things happening over on Wikipedia lately - as hard as it is to admit, many of the really abusive old-guard types are either losing interest or losing clout, or both, and the content of certain articles seems to be starting to reflect that. (And naturally, Jimbo is taking as much credit for this as possible.) Yeah, there's a lot of porn, but it's the internet, so you have to expect that, if not actually accept it... But then something like this happens, and you just have to wonder, what the hell are these people thinking?
Anyhoo, the basic point remains - Murphy's a producer, one of many on most of the films he works on. If he'd been the director or even the screenwriter on all those films, maybe I could see why it would be necessary for a pop-culture-based encyclopedia-like website to have an article on him, but unless he wins a bunch of Oscars or something, I just don't see the necessity of it for a producer. Note that I'm not saying WP should delete all articles about movie producers; in fact, I'm sure most movie producers who don't currently have WP articles about them would love to have them. Most movie producers are probably really nice people. I'm just saying there's no need for articles on them in the vast majority of cases, and the WP'ers certainly don't have some sort of God-given right to post and carry them, either. (Though obviously they would disagree.)
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