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by jquery 1480 days ago
Wikipedia policy about biographies of living people prevents this kind of “expose” type article from being written.
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With good reason in most cases.
I’m not very familiar with the reasoning behind Wikipedia’s decisions. In this case, the controversies seem highly relevant to the papers being churned up. I appreciate the effort the authors of the rationwiki article put forth. It’s distributed citizen journalism.