On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:21 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/1/18 Ken Arromdee <[email protected]>: > >> The problem is that Wikipedia policies pretty much encourage editors to >> filibuster changes they don't like by demanding sources and questioning the >> sources. This is useful when there's a serious question about whether the >> information is accurate, but it's also abused when there's no serious >> question >> about the information's accuracy and the request for sources is used to block >> something they want to exclude for other reasons. If someone then provides a >> valid source anyway, the source just gets repeatedly questioned regardles of >> whether it follows Wikipedia's sourcing rules. > > > If they want to filibuster the reliability of this source, it speaks > of some child being Robert Heinlein's great-grandson ... Heinlein > didn't have any children. I wonder where they got that from. > > > - d.
After some checking, it seems he really didn't have any offspring. But he had quite a few siblings, so I am going to tentatively assume that http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=7536 is right and what was meant was great-grandnephew. They might've simply asked the kid and gotten that response; I remember when I was that age & younger I was none too clear on the whole genealogical tree and who was nephew to whom. But hopefully someone will contact the article writer and get it straightened out. -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
