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Article content question: Does BLP apply to someone dead 40 years?
Does BLP really apply to someone dead 40 years? Or are we onto "general" article status? 50? 100? Merrill Stubing (talk) 12:30, 14 April 2011 (UTC) I think it depends what the laws are in your nation. In some cases, even the dead have publicity and other rights, and in some cases these rights are inheritable. It is probably best to apply a BLP-like standard, but since the person is gone, they won't be really affected by things, but heirs or family might be hurt financially or emotionally. -- Avanu (talk) 12:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC) Publicity rights only deal with commercial uses of a name or likeness, such as to endorse a product. So it isn't a concern on Misplaced Pages any more than trademarks are. postdlf (talk) 14:21, 14 April 2011 (UTC) Merrill, were you responding to the BLPish claims you'd seen on the talk page for our Prescott Bush article? Misplaced Pages's policy about the biographies of living persons only applies to living persons, in any case, although I agree we should be mindful of a subject's dignity, whether living or not. – OhioStandard (talk) 13:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC) Strictly, BLP itself refers only to living persons. However, remember that anything dealing with a deceased person could impact their living children or relatives. Reveal that someone 30 years dead had an affair, and you could cause harm to their 30 year old son, for example. Best to have good sources, living person or no. UltraExactZZ ~ Did 14:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC) Especially where the living descendant is wikilinked to the article, I would suppose, in your opinion. European law, which would only apply if any editor lives in Europe, appears more protective now of the dead than does US law. IMO, de mortuis is good practise. Collect (talk) 14:30, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Article content question: Does BLP apply to someone dead 40 years?

Does BLP really apply to someone dead 40 years?

Or are we onto "general" article status? 50? 100? Merrill Stubing (talk) 12:30, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

I think it depends what the laws are in your nation. In some cases, even the dead have publicity and other rights, and in some cases these rights are inheritable. It is probably best to apply a BLP-like standard, but since the person is gone, they won't be really affected by things, but heirs or family might be hurt financially or emotionally. -- Avanu (talk) 12:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Publicity rights only deal with commercial uses of a name or likeness, such as to endorse a product. So it isn't a concern on Misplaced Pages any more than trademarks are. postdlf (talk) 14:21, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Merrill, were you responding to the BLPish claims you'd seen on the talk page for our Prescott Bush article? Misplaced Pages's policy about the biographies of living persons only applies to living persons, in any case, although I agree we should be mindful of a subject's dignity, whether living or not. – OhioStandard (talk) 13:48, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Strictly, BLP itself refers only to living persons. However, remember that anything dealing with a deceased person could impact their living children or relatives. Reveal that someone 30 years dead had an affair, and you could cause harm to their 30 year old son, for example. Best to have good sources, living person or no. UltraExactZZ ~ Did 14:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Especially where the living descendant is wikilinked to the article, I would suppose, in your opinion. European law, which would only apply if any editor lives in Europe, appears more protective now of the dead than does US law. IMO, de mortuis is good practise. Collect (talk) 14:30, 14 April 2011 (UTC)