Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Calpernia Addams (2nd nomination)
to Barry Winchell. Without the link to the killing of Winchell, her article would be deleted as quickly as those of numerous beauty queens, local theater talents, and persons with medical conditions. At present there is only one independent and reliable reference, "An Inconvenient Woman,(2005)" from the NY Times Sunday Magazine. There is a NY Times article about the killing of Mitchell, "Killer's Trial Shows Gay Soldier's Anguish(1999but it only makes passing reference to Addams. The "Gay pimpin'" podcast and the VDAY website do not constitute "reliable and independent sources" in my view. Per  "Biographies of living persons (BLPs) must be written conservatively, with regard for the subject's privacy. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid; it is not our job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives. The possibility of harm to living subjects is one of the important factors to be considered when exercising editorial judgement." We have deleted numerous articles about living persons with more national press coverage, who were primarily known for one thing, such as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allison Stokke,   In some cases, such as  Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corey Delaney, even the deletion debate has been "hidden from view for privacy reasons"  The fact that the subject of the article requests it be deleted gives additional weight to the need to delete or redirect it.  is another avenue by which a person may seek to have material removed from an article, or to have the article deleted
— User:Edison, 16:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:BLP||WP:OTRS (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)