> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 28 March 2011 16:00, geni <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You see the problem? >> >> Do I ever. > > Fred, a couple of points: > > 1) You missed out the attribution to geni when you reposted what he > said (you made it look like David Gerard said what geni said, which > would be wise to avoid here, and I agree with David that specific > cases should be avoided here). > > 2) It is not clear whether you are agreeing or disagreeing with geni. > > The general discussion would probably best be focused on whether > encyclopedia articles should be written using statements from the > Crown Prosecution Service. It goes to the heart of whether you have > up-to-the-minute reports on the "news", or whether you wait for things > to settle down, for cases to be decided, and only then report on the > bits that allow for encyclopedic coverage. > > I've argued before that the minimum standard for any biographical > article should be a published biography of some sort, that at minimum > includes birth year (or some details on why the birth year is not > known). These can range from self-published on an official website, to > short bios in conference proceedings, to an actual published > book-length biography. What shouldn't be done is piecing together bits > from newspaper articles and primary sources - that is what official > and unofficial biographers do, and we shouldn't be doing it in their > stead. > > Carcharoth
I have extensive experience with Giovanni Di Stefano (businessman) regarding his Wikipedia article. I agree that some subjects present difficult problems, and not just to us. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
