- Children of Michael Jackson (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)
Deleted per WP:NOTE and WP:BLP. Here are two sources for the NOTE issue.[1][2] As you can imagine, there are thousands of news sources that discuss them to greater and lesser degrees over the past 10 or so years (the article had about 25 by the time it was deleted). It didn't violate BLP, and that would have been a reason to fix it and not delete it, anyways. Basically people had a gut feeling about the article, and didn't really care if it conflicts with our guidelines and policies. I think if we base our decision on our rules, it should not be deleted. Also, there were a lot of merge !votes as well as deletes. Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 19:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Closing admin: This was generally a case of a large mass of coverage that pretty much solely covered the children in the context of their father and his death; which many felt resulted in the article merely reflecting inherited notability. Neither side any kind of monopoly on poorly-reasoned arguments; in the end I felt the overall consensus leaned distinctly towards removing this content and in the case of particularly sensitive BLPs of children I felt my close was also the prudent option. ~ mazca talk 19:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The coverage has spanned over ten years. People in the AfD said NOTINHERITED, and basically ignored the duration of coverage. I think a lot of them thought NOTINHERITED is meant in a family sense, which it isn't. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 19:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse - we base our deletions on consensus, and the consensus was to delete in this case. Since DRV is to argue the procedure and not reargue the AfD, the consensus is what matters here. For disclosure, I was the nominating editor. Fritzpoll (talk) 19:19, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse. There were no procedural problems with the close, and the WP:BLP concerns were very real. Unitanode 19:27, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse - consensus was clear. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 19:43, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment It may be pointless to ask, but can an endorser address how the sources do not meet notability, now the duration of coverage does not meet NOTINHERITED, and how BLP says this should be deleted? This is the same thing that happened at the AfD. People cite policies, but have never shown how those policies actually apply. It's probably in your best interests to just pile on a never speak of how policies apply, I guess. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 19:52, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- PF, please stop rehashing the AFD issues. You think one thing. A whole LOT of people feel differently than you. Procedurally, this close was on the money. Please focus on areas of how this was procedurally done, or simply withdraw the DRV, as you've raised no questions about the procedure followed during this close. My arguments were made at the AFD, and I won't make them again here. Unitanode 20:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll take that as a no. As the below commenter mentions, as well as at least one of the deletes in the AfD, they are notable. I guess we'll just call every delete an WP:IAR delete. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 20:35, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- PF, I'm basing my judgment on the AFD discussion only. DRV is not the place to argue about sources. My endorsement of the closure doesn't necessarily represent my (or anyone else's viewpoint) on whether the conensus was correct or not, but rather on what the outcome of the concensus was. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 21:19, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse. This ridiculously large discussion had two substantial rationales for deletion - lack of independent notability, and BLP. While I agree with PF's reading of notability here, the guideline certainly is amorphous enough to support the argument that there is only derivative notability here. I'm more sympathetic to the BLP concerns, although I agree that they are more prospective in nature than the result of any demonstrated problem. Still, the discussion here was quite thorough, and I don't think that this is situation where one side is working so outside of policy that its position can be given substantially less weight. The closer here accurately discerned that on balance, the consensus was to delete. Would that all our discussions benefit from many pairs of eyes. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 20:26, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- This is an interesting one. The consensus was delete, but I agree with Xymmax that WP:N doesn't actually support that outcome. I don't think BLP does, either; BLP concerns might be a reason to fix the article, or even edit-protect it, but I don't see that they lead to a need to delete it.
Still. Where consensus collides with the rules, consensus should prevail, so I endorse this accurate close.—S Marshall Talk/Cont 20:49, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse as a reasonable admin closure. From my perspective, the arguments for deletion seem to outweigh the reasons for keeping; even though it's not a strong consensus, I'm afraid the BLP concerns raised bring it over the top. MuZemike 21:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse Good close. There were good explanations in the delete rationales for why BLP applied so I'm slightly concerned the nominator doesn't understand how BLP applied. I understand they might not agree but the reasoning was provided and was clearly compelling. Spartaz Humbug! 21:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse. Thoroughly debated at AfD. Even if WP:BLP isn't written clearly enough, deciding to delete and keep deleted this subject is the right thing to do and we should not be embarrassed to make decisions reflecting morality. No information will be lost to humanity if we don't cover these people now. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:53, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Question what is the part of BLP that applies? There's the "Presumption in favor of privacy" section, which sounds like it might support deletion, but nothing in it really does. It has lots of advice about how the article should be written, and that advice was heeded. WP:BLP1E sounds kinda close (forgetting the years of coverage), but it recommends a merge. Maybe I'm missing something. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 22:00, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't know if I have the answer you're looking for, but there is much more potential for harm to living persons wrt articles like this, especially when content-forked as it what it looked like happened. Information on BLPs are to be taken much more seriously and consequently with much more care. While the mantra when in doubt, don't delete is a useful watch-word wrt deletion/XFDs, that does not necessarily apply to biographies of living persons, where said persons are entitled to protection from harmful, unsourced/unverifiable information. We cannot sit back on a BLP and say, 'this will eventually get cleaned up, so don't delete it', it's got to be done right. Hence, the extra care needed. Many users I think have this in mind during this DRV. That's my take. MuZemike 23:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I think Peregrine,s question should be: How can WP:BLP be revised to better explain what was done here. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:06, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- That's answers my question. Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 01:49, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse close - a perfectly valid weighing of strength of arguments. --ThaddeusB (talk) 00:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse I agree fully with the argument that notability is not inherited. --BlueSquadronRaven 06:09, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse, consensus looks fine to me. Stifle (talk) 08:41, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse as a good close based on the arguments put forward, with no apparent procedural errors (and none raised by the editor who initiated this discussion). Hut 8.5 12:25, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse and hoping Michael Jackson's health and appearance and Records and achievements of Michael Jackson are the next MJ related articles to meet similar fate. - ALLST✰R▼echo wuz here 13:03, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Overturn (from author) due to lack of time to refute WP:BLP concerns. I had thought a due process would be to wait (at least) 2 days to see if anyone had time to refute the final 5 fears about BLP hacking. Those issues went completely unopposed in the final minutes before deletion. Perhaps others (seeing my "recap subsections") thought I had time (everyday) to refute the next set of debate points; however, I spent my time expanding the article (not the debate) to explain Grace Rwaramba was the 12-year nanny from Uganda (college in U.S.) helping MJ+children (and I wanted to add they called her "Mum", him "Daddy" but couldn't find 2nd source). So, meanwhile as I'm expanding the article with double-sourced facts, the AfD is seen as unrefuted and closed.
Again, I say "Overturn" due to a lack of time (such as 2 days) to refute final arguments. However, I also fear the BLP hacking and think "un-deletion" should discuss pre-protecting article immediately before restoring to public view: someone had already quipped "custody will go to Octomom(!)" and another moved/renamed the article to title "Children of Debbie Rowe" thinking they "aren't really" MJ children, despite birth-certificates signed by MJ. This situation is a policy loophole in Wikipedia: why doesn't a large article get split into subarticles with automatically the same protection: instead, each attempt to expand in subarticles is exposed to endless vandalism seen by "65,000" pageviews per day until embarrassing vandalism is proven to offend readers/children in mourning. When delaying typical article protection, no wonder there were so many BLP concerns. So, please discuss protection before un-deleting, per lack of time to refute ending arguments. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:51, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- endorse close I'm not sure I would have favored deletion if I had seen this discussion while it occurred, but the consensus for deletion is pretty clear. JoshuaZ (talk) 18:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse as the only reasonable option. Accurate and well-informed closure. –Juliancolton | Talk 23:32, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse. This whole thing was a flurry of WP:RECENTISM and the BLP concerns outweighed that. Always error to the side of caution with BLP, especially with minors. Niteshift36 (talk) 01:17, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Overturn #2 (from author) due to closure outside scope of AfD. When readers were asked to consider the AfD, the scope involved 2 issues: notability of article's topic, and WP:ONEEVENT. However, once those issues were refuted, rather than stop the AfD, the debate became (surprise!) WP:BLP, without amending the top reasons for deletion. Once deleted, the reasoning stated "particularly sensitive BLPs of children" which had not been fairly indicated, at the top of AfD, as a major issue to discuss or refute. That's changing the rules of the game in mid-stream, and hence, people were left unprepared for what spurious argument to debate next. -Wikid77 (talk) 06:15, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Overturn #3 (from author) due to new user(s) saying "Delete". When a new user (with red-linked name) "tilts the consensus" to deletion, as the main contributions of a 4-edit user, then that's highly questionable. If at trial, a police officer were found to have falsified evidence, then I think a cloud of suspicion would be cast on all evidence; a recess (delay) would be in order, to re-examine the events: there is a difference between consensus and canvassing. -Wikid77 (talk) 06:15, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Overturn #4 (from author) due to arguing from false premises. The AfD was initiated by claiming: notability of an article's topic is NEVER inherited, and a WP:ONEEVENT would NEVER support a separate article. However, when considering the topic of the White Star Line, there were 2 sister ships (nearly identical) which were the new babies of the famous shipping line: S.S. Olympic (1910) & S.S. Titanic (1912). Well, notability (of the shipping line) is not inherited, so forget those babies, they don't count, no matter how rare. The Olympic sailed a while and had a minor wreck, but was repaired. Then the R.M.S. Titanic sank, but that was just a WP:ONEEVENT. Case closed: not even notable enough for "Sister ships of White Star". In reality, because they had been sister-ships, the S.S. Olympic was later used to demonstrate turning tests of how the Titanic could have been steered to avoid an iceberg (conclusion: don't put engines in reverse when steering forward). Anyway, it is well-known in sentential logic, that if the premises of an argument are false, then anything can be proven, like "white is not white" or "black is white" or "this article should be deleted". Hence, it is completely unacceptable to claim such a debate, based on false premises, which are guaranteed to support the unavoidable deletion. The AfD must be rejected due to those false premises which created a systemic bias, highly likely to result in deletion. Next time, note: a WP:ONEEVENT must be like a worldwide event, like some big ship dies (or similar) to support notability of those involved, such as a group of survivors or those who diagnosed the dangers (Frederick Fleet, crewman who sighted the iceberg). Hence, notability can be derived from a single event. -Wikid77 (talk) 06:15, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Overturn #5 (from author) due to new DRA-profiling of the evidence. The article had been convicted of the "crime" of BLP-childrisk and sentenced to deletion. However, other culprits can be revealed once the evidence is re-examined, using DRA-profiling, for dangerous risk activities (DRA), in use at the time. Specifically, the debated problem of BLP-childrisk (for minors) can be traced to other suspects:
- the practice of not protecting the article against IP edits increases the likelihood of risky text (nearly 90% of hacked edits can be traced to IP-address users).
- the practice of not posting warnings (of risk) could be seen as neglect in not alerting others to child-protection issues.
- the practice of not posting a typical legal notice could be seen as contributing to dangers in child-protection issues.
- Once the evidence is re-examined, then the article can be proven to be not guilty of BLP-childrisk, since small children are also described in other articles, such as in "Brad Pitt#Children" and "Tom Cruise". -Wikid77 (talk) 13:32, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- My responses above were not "AFD2" nor "textwalling" but, rather, 5 separate, detailed motions to overturn the ruling of the AfD. In reality, legal debates require a lot of written text (not "textwalling"), and for that reason, the practice has been known (for many decades) as the "paper chase". So, be prepared to see a lot more text, in the future, when resolving these motions to overturn, or when debating an original AfD. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:48, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- You are truly doing yourself no favors with your attitude towards -- and apparent misunderstanding of -- the processes involved in Wikipedia. I won't be responding to your textwalling ("paper chase", whatever) any further. Unitanode 20:52, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Only problem with that is that the Afd closure isn't a ruling by a judge, it's a reading of consensus by an admin. DRV isn't a legal venue for "motions", it's a place to highlight issues with the deletion process. If you want to play at being a lawyer, that's fine, but this isn't a legal process and so treating it as one isn't going to benefit you in anyway. Volume of argument isn't important, quality is. The volume of argument can of course obscure the quality. --82.7.40.7 (talk) 17:15, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- No, it most certainly is a ruling by a judge, who happens to be an admin judging the AfD. And it certainly is a venue for "motions" which define causes to overturn the ruling, based on problems of procedure. Plus, using a similar analogy to a legal court, has revealed to me the problems of viewing canvassing or sockpuppets as a form of "consensus" where Truth is defined by a popularity contest. So, it is of enormous benefit to me that no one thinks that's a problem: I think I can see why 98% of users quit Wikipedia within 1 month. So much is just a waste of time. -Wikid77 (talk) 04:15, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- If you have an accusation of sockpuppetry, make it in the appropriate venue, not here. If you don't, then you should strike your accusations straightaway. Unitanode 04:27, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse closure: In fact, contrary to the closing summary, I think the weight of the AfD did indicate notability, but it also raise serious BLP issues, and it was quite correct to close to delete on that basis. — Charles Stewart (talk) 20:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Wikipedia is not a court of law. Stifle (talk) 22:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse Closure I might well have voted to keep, and I can't understand why the option of merge was not considered, but consensus needs to be respected. There is no evidence that there is anything out of process here. Alansohn (talk) 04:14, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse, I see nothing out of process about this AfD. DRV is not AfD 2.0 and all that, the simple fact is that being of the opinion that the AfD result was "wrong" is not grounds for AfD. The discussion of whether an in-process AfD can actually be wrong is left for another time. Usrnme h8er (talk · contribs) 09:04, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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