Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of notable people and groups accused of sexual misconduct since the Me Too movement

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The result was delete. Tone 22:28, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of notable people and groups accused of sexual misconduct since the Me Too movement[edit]

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This content was split off from the Weinstein effect article after concerns (permalink here) that the lists there consisted of WP:OR and, if not restricting the lists only to cases cited by reliable sources as being the result of the Weinstein effect, could go on forever if including anyone who has been accused of sexual assault since the Weinstein effect and Me Too movement have taken a hold of society. Even if restricting the lists in such a way, it was noted that the Weinstein effect article is not a list article and that the lists could continue to expand (albeit at a slower rate). A solution was to cut the lists, not to create a WP:Content fork of the material. This content fork has the potential to be worse than it was in its original format since the title for it is broad and can easily allow for the inclusion of anyone who has been accused of sexual assault since the rise of the Me Too movement. It will be nothing but an indiscriminate list of accused people, with many entries not even tied to the Weinstein effect and/or Me Too movement. In fact, a number of the entries on this list are like that now. It is an unmanageable WP:BLP issue magnet. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 16:40, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:04, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh. BLP issues, indiscriminate content, brr. I agree with the nominator. Drmies (talk) 18:38, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Way too broad of a list. Accusations of sexual misconduct a century from now would still be included in this list. – FenixFeather ^{(talk)(Contribs)} 20:12, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As a list that will grow without end. The topic is notable, but is adequately covered by the effect and me too articles, which only need a handful of representative examples. For the ones where the accusation has had a major effect on the persons life (and therefore is discussed in some depth on their blp article, perhaps a cat would serve better. ResultingConstant (talk) 20:41, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Fenix. It's fast becoming a WP:COATRACK to add anyone who has been accused of such things, regardless of the link back to the initial movement. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 07:41, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This article reminds me of the "Aftermath"/"Me Too effect" section of the old Me Too movement article, which was eventually removed because it was a "BLP nightmare". So too should this article be removed. ^Falling_Gravity 07:58, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete indiscriminate, unmaintainable, and a list of accusations is likely to have BLP violations. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:55, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, "accused of", serious BLP issues, should never have been forked. Sam Sailor 01:39, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It's a WP:BLP nightmare. We want to be very very very cautious when dealing in explosive material like this which is potentially very destructive to a person's reputation. If the article was List of notable people and groups associated with the New York Mets or whatever, that'd be one thing, and even then it'd be marginal to our mission and possibly hurtful (a person might, understandably, not want to known as being associated with the Mets). But this? Well outside of our remit. Delete. Herostratus (talk) 00:51, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT and WP:BLP. This is not suitable content for a serious encyclopedia. - Mr X 🖋 13:55, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.