QUOTE(Likipenia @ Tue 18th March 2008, 12:25am)
I think WP policy ought to be to delete the articles of living persons on request and prevent them from being recreated, as long as their identity can be established.
I would not go that far... those who are clearly and unambiguously public figures (Academy Award-winning actors, state-level politicians and above, best-selling authors, professional athletes at the major league level, etc.), Wikipedia needs articles on. And major figures such as those people - well, we really don't have too many BLP problems with, because enough people are generally watching those pages that anything truly awful gets reverted fast.
The problems are generally when you get even one layer below that, nobody pays any attention to those biographies and thus stuff can sit and fester for days, weeks, months.
Don Murphy fits in that category - someone might have written something about him in the trade papers once, but he's no Steven Spielberg, and hence probably it's on nobody's watchlist and awful tripe will sneak in because it's easy for a determined person (or group of people) with an axe to grind to do so unless everyone and his mother is paying attention to the article 24/7.
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