Category talk:Professional wrestling controversies

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RfC: Should this category contain biographies of individual persons?

Should individual biographies be included in this category?LM2000 (talk) 08:19, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No such inclusions potentially violate WP:BLPCAT, WP:COPDEF, MOS:LABEL, and WP:OPINIONCAT. While David Arquette in World Championship Wrestling is a controversy, David Arquette should not be. Furthermore, it seems like every subject that gets a Dark Side of the Ring episode is listed here. Consider making a separate category for topics of that show rather than listed them here; just because they were the focus of a TV show does not mean we should categorize them as controversial.LM2000 (talk) 08:26, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@LM2000: I have pulled the {{rfc}} tag because there is no indication that WP:RFCBEFORE has been tried, let alone exhausted. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:50, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, this doesn't seem like an RfC subject, until regular discussion has been attempted and has failed to come to a clear resolution. Toward the end of reaching one, I agree entirely with LM2000's summary above of why individual bios do not belong in this category. If a category that could be categorized here has been relegate to a section at a bio, then the solution is to create a controversy redirect to that section and categorize the redirect here. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:55, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No. A moment, incident, or event could be controversial, but we can't categorize the whole career of a person as professional wrestling controversy. A good example is Montreal Screwjob. Should we put Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, and Earl Hebner in this category? I don't think so. For individual persons, I suggest using a specific sub-category that is related to their case; e.g. Category:Professional wrestlers with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. --Mann Mann (talk) 10:02, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]