Toby Bartels wrote:
I don't think that Jimbo's message was meant
to tell us to comply;
he could have reverted the article himself had he wanted to.
Right. But, I personally think that we should just delete it and be
done with it. It's not worth fighting him over.
IIRC, this has come up before, and Bradford's
charges were without merit.
In this case, someone is accusing him of fraud, etc., and these sort
of serious charges ought not to be made, even in the article history.
It seems that the simplest thing to do is delete the article. If
someone wants to start a new article on him after the deletion, then
save the text you want to insert, and start a new article after the
deletion, taking great care to be NPOV.
But, really, I'm not sure why we should care to force the guy to have
an article about himself, if he doesn't want one. He's not really all
that famous. It's not like Madonna is asking us not to have an
article, or Tony Blair. It's just some guy.
--Jimbo