QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 20th April 2010, 3:19pm)
I might be willing to believe that he might want to try to impose something like that, if only for the PR value... though I suppose he'd prefer to just do the bare minimum, which would be "default to simple voting majority on no-consensus BLP AfD's." That would have had the desired result in this case, at least.
But imagine the massive PR impact if WP simply decided that ALL BLPs would be outlawed. Period, no exceptions. Not EVEN Barack Obama's.
The second rule being that they could be instituted as bios of dead people 7 days after the person died (to allow a decent notification and relative warning period). All BLPs created up to now, to be released from storage then, on formal request.
Of course, this would encourage a scraper site BIOPEDIA which would do nothing but host the missing 400,000 BLPs (or whatever it is at the moment). But so what. WP would have taken a moral stance and I think the world would actually notice. The snigger factor would even go down.
I would even venture to guess that it wouldn't be long before the two things people knew about WP was that 1) it's not reliable and 2) it refuses to do biographies of live people.
Which would be cool.
Of course, WP will not avail itself of this chance, because, as an institution, WP is EVIL.* So doing well by doing good will be denied them, in this case. A shame.
MR
* Hell, these days even GOOGLE is stuggling not to be EVIL. I think when they created their motto they never envisioned the day when not being E-VIL would have an impact on their bottom line.
Horrors!