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WP:BLP, WP:BLPCAT, WP:WikiProject LGBT studies/Guidelines This essay represents actual posts and indicates the necessity for editors to fully enforce the policy WP:BLP..
A living person may be categorized and identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) only if they themselves publicly identify as such.
Note: TMZ has been the subject of a number of noticeboard discussions:
And in multiple places it is noted that TMZ uses Wikipedia as its "source" for celebrity biographies. Licensed, of course. But not something we should ignore.
Current trend on BLP/N is don't use TMZ for biographies or for contentious claims proving the validity of this essay.
Sometimes I wander about in WP -- and sometimes I seem to strike gold. In one old BLP (dates etc. and names are mainly hashed up) one can see precisely why the rigid enforcement of BLP and all BLP-connected articles is essential. How better than to use the posts of one editor, long gone. From Notepad -- some stress is added, and most of the comments are removed. This demonstrates a concerted effort by a departed editor to insert clearly scurrilous material into a BLP. Ooops -- the article has all the gay stuff in it now. One very big argument for genuine enforcement of BLP standards.