Bose AfD could use attention from experienced editors Options

[SnottyWong]

There's an AfD running currently that is attempting to delete about 10 articles, which I feel is being somewhat railroaded by inexperienced WP editors. I'm definitely not asking anyone to come and vote the way I want you to vote, but I feel that this AfD would be quickly resolved if it got the attention of a few experienced editors. If you're up to it, have a look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...stereo_speakers

Thanks.

[Happy drinker]

On a broader note, there's a lot said on this site about BLP. In law, a company is a person. Shouldn't BLP protection extend to companies, and shouldn't editors here be as opposed to creation of articles on companies as they are to creation of articles on living humans?

You may say that if there's a mistake in a company article it's not going to hurt "real people". Not true; if a company is damaged it affects the employees, the shareholders and pension funds that invest in it. Further, an article on a company might well refer to the actions of individual directors of the company. If people are worried about deliberate vandalism or insertion of false data, isn't that more likely to happen to a company article because a company is more likely to have detractors or business rivals, and vandals are more likely to think "it's only a company, I'm not hurting anyone"?

Also, I suspect that articles on companies that are "vanity creations" by employees or agents of the company outnumber "vanity bios" written by the subjects themselves.

So should there be a policy of not having articles on companies, and "default to delete" on AfDs?

This post has been edited by Happy drinker:

[Somey]

So should there be a policy of not having articles on companies, and "default to delete" on AfDs?

It's a fair question, but the idea that a corporation should be treated as a person is a legal construction that doesn't hold in all countries, and of course many people (including myself) find this idea repugnant.

Nevertheless, your point about people being negatively affected does hold - Overstock.com being one of the better examples of large companies that have been targeted for "POV" revenge attacks by WP'ers, and IIRC the Coca-Cola Company and a few others. The "default to delete" rule for articles about companies seems perfectly reasonable, if you ask me.

The main thing is that I would, of course, strongly object to any of this being used as a rationale for not applying such rules to help protect the privacy, etc., of individuals.