[WikiEN-l] Looking up death dates in government death records: original research?

[David Gerard]

On 30/04/07, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't agree with this. The other day, I created a biography article
> for an individual whose full name (including MI), date and place of
> death, and age at death I had. I used the SSDI to obtain the date of
> birth rather than leave a blank in the article, as I couldn't find it
> elsewhere. No rational policy would preclude using the records for
> something like this.


No, this is process worship in the pursuit of a ridiculous result.
"Oh, we know the right answer, but we're going to pretend we don't so
we can delete the article knowing it's the wrong thing to do."


- d.