Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Personal life of Jennifer Lopez
valid split-off article with sufficient size to stand alone. At best, this would be merged back to Jennifer Lopez as a necessary part of her biography, but I see nothing significant that can be trimmed from this to reduce its size. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Personal relationships of Paul McCartney, closed as keep, a group nomination that included similar articles for McCartney, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra. As the closing admin there explained, the main issue is whether there is enough reliably sourced information to justify splitting from the main biographical article, particularly where so many of the relationships are with other notable people (in Lopez's case, Ben Affleck, Sean Combs, Marc Anthony) and are undeniably high-profile. The nom's dismissive characterization of this as "tabloid tittle-tattle" suggests , and is inaccurate in any event where the sources are not tabloid gossip rags but instead mainstream magazines and news outlets. This isn't merely transitory news either, because any biography of Lopez would include this info even though many of these relationships are now years old. There seem to be many WP editors who feel that info on anything other than accomplishments is not encyclopedic, as if biographies should be purged of anything personal. But the focus on this kind of personal information is not specific to entertainers or celebrities, nor limited to tabloid gossip; see Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln, Ann Rutledge (believed to be Lincoln's first love, notable for no other reason), Personal relationships of Alexander the Great, Personal relationships of James VI and I... If someone is notable, we want a full and rich portrait of them as human beings, not just their resumés
— User:Postdlf, 15:16, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IDONTLIKEIT (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)