As you evidence, the matter is notable to a significant portion of the population.
As to how someone else can consider the matter not notable, perhaps speciation is occurring... Fred > How is the very likely possibility of infidelity "relative trivia"? I > consider it fairly relevant to a section named "Personal life". Also, > your analogy with historical biographies is flawed, because the inclusion > of this allegation barely makes the article increase in size at all. > > -- > ~~yutsi > Sent from my iPhone. > > On Oct 7, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Thomas Morton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 7 October 2012 14:56, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Oct 7, 2012 2:44 PM, "Marc Riddell" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I came across this today in the English Wikipedia: >>>> >>>> "In 2011, it has been reported that [the subject] has been caught >>> cheating >>>> on his wife with a 30 year old intern turned reporter." >>>> >>>> Is this worthy of a credible Encyclopedia or, if it needs reported at >>> all, >>>> in a gossip tabloid rag? >>> >>> I'd prefer it if we didn't make that kind of decision ourselves. Has >>> it >>> been reported in mainstream (non-gossip) media? (We have to make a >>> judgement about whether a particular source is respectable or not, but >>> that's better than making judgements on individual facts.) >>> ______ >>> >> >> We do it all the time. >> >> I write historical biographies (amongst other things) and if I recorded >> all >> of the detail discussed in the numerous reliable sources (i.e. books) >> used >> for each then I would still be writing the first one (and just about >> got to >> the length of a medium novel!). >> >> Editorial judgement is a key skill for any competent WP editor, and we >> should focus less on rigid rules (which encourage the inclusion of >> trivia) >> and more on good editorial judgement. >> >> In this case, good editorial judgement suggests that this is relative >> trivia. It is not really related to his reason for notability and is >> distinctly about his private life. It also seems to be something along >> the >> lines of an allegation mostly covered in tabloid gossip. >> >> I'd suggest that with good editorial judgement this is something we >> would >> pause for some time before covering, if at all, whilst BLP applies. >> >> Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
