User talk:Unitypigdog

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Also - with Dean McVeigh you may want to look at WP:LIVING which has guidlines for keeping articles about living people encyclopedic and not libelous. Agnte 10:00, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

The argument seems to be that he is not a "notable person" in the sense of Wikipedia's guidelines, cited by Agnte above. He is an accountant who is professionally involved in a matter which of some notoriety in Melbourne, but he is not himself a public figure. This seems to me to be debateable. A lawyer acting in high-profile criminal cases, for example, becomes a "notable person" in their own right, so there is no intrinsic reason why an accountant cannot do so. It is necessary, however, to show how and why this particular accountant has become a notable person. Some users seem to want to suggest that his noteworthyness arises from allegations of professional misconduct against him. But airing these is potentially defamatory even if the allegations are sourced, and Wikipedia has recently become more cautious about defamation issues, as it should. Adam 13:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)