Some people are annoyed that there are too many "brazelton" threads for obscure nobodies, and want to combine them into a Brazelton thread. Others have joined in with various stances.
I think we can all agree that clearer titles would b e helpful. A joke's okay, but maybe, as a rule, at least add the name in parentheses or something.
Some feel everybody should be free to post a Brazelton about anyone or anything.
Some feel nobody deserves a separate thread, and perhaps not even a post at all.
Most seem somewhat in the middle; perhaps a thread for all the "small" ones, and separate threads for "important" people. The obvious problem is how you determine who's important.
Personally, I don't see the problem with "unknown" Brazeltons. Not about your neighbour's cousin, perhaps, but I have learned about people I'd forgotten all about, or didn't know who they were while enjoying their work, and such, so I think there's value in a Brazelton for even fairly unknown (especially "outside certain circles") people. I could see a general thread for people who you know will only get 3 or 4 replies, but I don't think we should enforce it too hard - leave someone to decide how important they thought someone was. Of course, we've done that before, and the thread faded into obscurity because, well, not enough people die in the famous-enough-to-want-to-mention-it-but-not-famous-enough-to-give-them-a-thread category.