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Extreme abuse is pushing a certain point of view. The legal issues are outlined in the article. The People.com section appears to be gossip. The Rolling Stone article appears to sensationalise aspects of Rose's life. However, it is considered to be a WP:RS so merits inclusion of some kind. Karst (talk) 13:58, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
The post posits that Rose is "homophobic" and has physically and criminally attacked women. Such an allegation is contentious, and, absent a strong reliable source, does not belong on any BLP or page at all. In short, I consider the comments to violate WP:BLP in esse. Collect (talk) 14:16, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
The comments on him being homophobic are in reference to the song "One in a Million" that has a section in the article. They include his response denying the allegations. Other then that, I continue to fully support the removal of the Seymour section in April (a serious BLP issue). But it now seems as if any aspect of his perosnal life is off limits. For instance, there is no mention of his short marriage to Erin Everly. Karst (talk) 14:27, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
The article does already mention the racism/homophobia controversy that surrounded "One in a Million". But the reality is that apart from that one song — in which it was never really all that clear that he was actually expressing his own personal views about people of colour or LGBTs, rather than simply writing from the fictional perspective of a crusty and biased character — there's no other known evidence of Rose harbouring racist or homophobic views. And when it comes to violence against women, all we have is unconfirmed allegations that have never, to my knowledge, been properly adjudicated in a court of law — Stephanie Seymour's lawsuit alleging abuse, for example, was filed simultaneously with a countersuit by Rose alleging that Seymour had been physically abusive to him. All of which means none of this is properly verifiable. We're not the town stocks, and do not exist as a venue for attacking people for things they may have done — we have to comply with WP:BLP, which requires us to be very careful when it comes to contentious claims about the behaviour of living people, and there's just not enough quality sourcing out there for us to properly do what you want. Bearcat (talk) 18:46, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
