Talk:Jack Renshaw (terrorist)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Vaticidalprophet (talk · contribs) 21:58, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Picking up. Vaticidalprophet 21:58, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

I have serious concerns about this article. This is an extremely sensitive BLP not written with the required sensitivity. Points of particular concern include Youtube citing, an entire paragraph on the subject's "gay dog" with unreliable sourcing, proseline-type decontextualized statements of bad things the subject and organizations connected to him did, and WP:BLPPRIMARY-violating cites to court cases. By my and my source highlighters' count, of the 18 individual sources with works cited in this article, 8 (Vice, Tab, HuffPo, Youtube, Metro, PinkNews, HopeNotHate, and the court records) are at best questionable for an ultra-sensitive BLP. (Of the remainder, one is an explicitly political source and three serve a local area.) Most to all of these sources can be used reliably in many contexts, but basing the BLP of someone imprisoned for life for terrorism and sex offenses around them is absolutely not one such context.

More to the point, it's hard to even call this a biography, rather than an explication of the subject's crimes. Many of our articles on subjects like this are explications of their crimes, which is not in and of itself always bad. Quite often, it's an honest reflection of the sources. (You'd hope better sources than here, but nonetheless.) It is, however, a serious problem at GA level. Biographies should be biographies, discussing the subject's life inside and out and placing it in its proper context. They are not strung-together collections of facts, no matter how awful the facts are. This is simply a list of the things someone has done. It puts almost as many words to the subject's dog licking the penises of other dogs than it does to the subject's childhood. This is an article for a tabloid, not an encyclopedia.

All of this is intensified by the fact this is not the first time the nominator has nominated a clearly problematic BLP on an extremist political figure for GA. The article Alice Butler-Short, created by the nominator, was also nominated at GAN and quickfailed for similar concerns.

I'm quickfailing this article under quickfail criteria #1, due to how far it is from meeting GA criteria. The sourcing is unacceptable, as is the proseline-studded, decontextualized content. More to the point, the article is in clear violation of BLP policy and should probably be brought up at BLPN. Writing the biographies of people notable for horrible crimes is an incredibly sensitive process that has not at all been pulled off here. Vaticidalprophet 00:05, 16 January 2022 (UTC)