"* Hell no As I said below, this is an encyclopedia.  You can't very well tear out ""Mussolini"" from every copy of EB ever printed, can you?  No - the subject existed, their notability was not temporary, the article exists.  Deleting one ""at the wish of the subject"" was the stupidest thing done; period.  Let's stop arguing about deletions, and let's simply make sure they meet BLP requirements as a whole, and protect them from defacement - period     

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