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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's 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 must always be considered when exercising editorial judgment. This policy applies to any living person mentioned in a BLP ...
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Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual ...
Not sure if this is the right forum to mention this. I have recently opened a discussion regarding the deletion of P. Kalyanasundaram at Wikipedia:Articles_for ...
I was under the impression that consensus on the change had been reached following discussions that took place on the talk page between 27 March and 3 May 2009 (see "Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Archive 21#Refining policy regarding use of children's/minors' names"), but Jclemens thought not and reverted my edit. Further comments ...
A similar discussion was had a few months back at Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Archive 50#Crimes committed by low profile individuals (It also involved @Masem) A relevant quote related to when to name a suspect follows, but the full discussion is worth a read:
Proposal: No Wiki BLP at all if the living person objects. A veto option. No exceptions. 69: Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Archive 2#Proposal: No Wiki BLP at all if the living person objects. A veto option. No exceptions. Clause allowing knee-jerk deletions: 30