It does! Thanks fellow-Sarah!
To be honest, my early editing experiences often make me a more paranoid when writing BLPs, so perhaps I took the rules too seriously myself!
Thank you again, a little guidance and clarity always goes a long way :)
Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :)
On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 14:21, Sarah Stierch sarah@sarahstierch.com wrote:
Hi. I actually brought up the issues with the references. While the second article about the car is not self-published, it does not state in the article that Danese is related to the owner of the vehicle or is named after. While she leaves a comment thanking them for the information about the Nardi-Danese Alfa Romeo Roadster, it is not cited in the article. The latter part I'd consider self-published (her post). Perhaps I'm wrong.
Sarah, just to let you know that self-published material is allowed as a source in the Wikipedia article about the author of the self-published material (and in some other circumstances too, if the source is an expert).
In this case, if Danese has written about the car on her personal website, that can be used as a source in the article about her. The limits of this are, among others, (a) there should be no reasonable doubt that she's the author; (b) the material should not be unduly self-serving (doesn't apply here); and (c) it should not involve discussion of third parties, especially living people -- but discussing her father in this case would be fine.
The policy on that is here for future reference -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SELFPUB#Self-published_and_questionab...
Hope this helps,