Fred, I'm failing to see the connection between a chap born in 1870 and our BLP policy. You perhaps can't find an obituary, but I'm pretty sure he's dead.
Scott -----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Fred Bauder Sent: 28 March 2011 19:48 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect > Good grief, Carcharoth, there it is!!!!! Brilliant! > > I've been stumbling about for years looking for a way to differentiate > between legitimate encyclopaedic biography, which Wikipedia should do, > and > the problematic, armature-journalistic, selectively biased, originally > researched, WP:NOTNEWS skirting, stuff that causes all the problems. If > we > could just agree on that definition you've given all would be well. > > No chance of that happening, unfortunately. > > Scott Thank God! Wikipedia:Ignore all rules is still policy. I couldn't find an obituary for Joel Renaldo, but I still had a lot of fun researching him. Anyone who doesn't think he is notable should ask O. Henry, if you can find him these days. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l