On 21/12/05, Taco Deposit <tacodeposit(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/21/05, sydney poore
<poore5(a)adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> To add unpublished details to a biography is an example of original
> research.
> (100% disagreement. A person's date of birth is not original research.
> DOB is a basic fact of society. It is verified daily by a wide
spectrum
of
organizations.)
Weren't we just celebrating, a few months ago, how we were able to
"scoop"
all the traditional news outlets on the news of
Susan Sontag's death?
That
was unpublished information (at the time).
It may be of some interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Andrea_Dworkin/Archive1 is the brief
debate we had over whether or not to go with unconfirmed reports of
her death. We predated the Guardian, the first major media to pick it
up, by at least 24 hours and probably more.
(I still think we should have waited until after the Guardian published,
though)
Yeah, I was thinking of Dworkin, not Sontag. Thanks. And I agree we should
have waited.
TD