Wikipedia:Dirty laundry

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Should we mention the youthful indiscretions of famous people, or not? How about not-so-youthful indiscretions? See the comments on the Talk Page, some of which which have been moved there from this page to prevent them from being changed by semi-automated spell checkers.


 * Richard Wagner wrote Judaism in Music -- should we hold that against him?
 * Martin Luther King, Jr. committed adultery (many times, I think) -- should this detract from his civil rights accomplishments?
 * Sun Myung Moon was imprisoned 6 different times -- does this mean he's not the Messiah?