Category talk:American fraudsters

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[edit] parameters

• Can someone explain what the parameters are for applying this category to articles? Because I've found it being used somewhat indiscriminately across a wide spectrum of people. Some have been convicted of fraud, which would seem to make sense. However, others have been convicted of a range of other crimes, and in some cases it's being used for faith healers and the like. I think the cat needs an intro that explains when to use it. --JJay 01:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree, and I think the category should be limited to those legally convicted of fraud. Though the word can be used more broadly, having the "fraudsters" category applied to someone's article might lead readers to assume someone has been convicted of fraud, when in fact they may not even have been accused of a crime. And even if the category tried to explicitly embrace the broader definition of fraud, we would then have a problem with the subjectivity of applying the category. I think Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Use_of_categories is useful here. --Allen 03:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)