Scholars who've asked for their biographies to be deleted, Catholics, Buddhists, feminists, Muslims ... Options

[HRIP7]

Another scholar asking for his biography to be deleted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...n#Ian_Dowbiggin

As far as I can make out, the biography was turned into an attack piece by a now-blocked sock, Jabbsworth (T-C-L-K-R-D) . The BLP subject has been blocked too as a "sockpuppeteer" (by Catfish Jim and the soapdish (T-C-L-K-R-D) ), after having made a grand total of 7 edits with two non-overlapping accounts. A prime example of Wikipedia assuming good faith, eh?

Nothing against secularism, but if it stoops to smearing academics because they follow a religious faith ... Dowbiggin is a Catholic, but there may be a wider pattern here, crossing religious boundaries. For example, last month a Buddhist feminist scholar requested deletion of her biography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...n/Rita_M._Gross

and there was Abbas, a Muslim, as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...3rd_nomination)

Let's collect these cases here.

This post has been edited by HRIP7:

[Silver seren]

I'm fixing up the article right now. There were clear problems with it, such as specially cherry-picked language from sources and even outright misattribution from sources or having the information not be in the source at all.

But Dowbiggin is clearly important in the euthanasia debate field. It'll take a little while to fix this all up, but i'll keep it looking good afterwards.