[WikiEN-l] Looking up death dates in government death

[Andrew Gray]

On 02/05/07, Nick Wilkins <nlwilkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> But in any case, [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons]] for the most
> part doesn't actually introduce new rules.  It just says that we need to
> enforce existing rules on verifiability, original research, and neutral
> point of view extremely strictly (especially in that we don't trust to
> eventualism on those articles).  Saying we should *consciously* relax those
> rules on a particular article just because the person happens to have
> (possibly) died is indeed somewhat silly.

Bingo.

"I think we should conclude they're dead so I can be sloppy" is never
a good argument.

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- Andrew Gray
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