Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons

The question arises: why not? I get why trial transcripts could be a problem if someone were to quote a damaging assertion made in the prosecutor's case or the testimony of a witness rather than the final verdict, but extending this to ''all'' public documents and ''all'' claims seems extreme. At least the reasoning should be explained on the policy page.--[[Special:Contributions/78.154.14.90|78.154.14.90]] ([[User talk:78.154.14.90|talk]]) 11:22, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

The question arises: why not? I get why trial transcripts could be a problem if someone were to quote a damaging assertion made in the prosecutor's case or the testimony of a witness rather than the final verdict, but extending this to ''all'' public documents and ''all'' claims seems extreme. At least the reasoning should be explained on the policy page.--[[Special:Contributions/78.154.14.90|78.154.14.90]] ([[User talk:78.154.14.90|talk]]) 11:22, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

:This gets discussed here occasionally, as recently [[Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Archive 61#Query about using findings/judgements in criminal cases as sources for BLPs|as last month]]. You may find my answer responsive to your question. [[User:Daniel Case|Daniel Case]] ([[User talk:Daniel Case|talk]]) 02:57, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

== 'Certain occupations' ==

== 'Certain occupations' ==