Comment by edgineer

Benedict became notable because of her death; Biographies of Living Persons has a privacy section that gives reasoning. These reasons, e.g. identity theft, complaint from the person, harassment, can not apply to a deceased person.

News articles did cover Benedict under the name Dagny.

As far as policies go, this page should be titled "Suicide of Nex Benedict" according to this policy [0], yet the talk on that subject ended with "closed with no consensus to move." [1]

This does speak to the selective application and selective enforcement of policies on Wikipedia. But I was most concerned to learn about how scrubbing the histories of pages is official policy itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Choosing_article_tit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Death_of_Nex_Benedict/Arc...