Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/2/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
(Yeah, original research, novel synthesis, I know. Sort of maybe; the
If so, OR is shooting us in the foot. The important thing is that we document how we reached that conclusion so others can decide if they respect it or not. Obviously we don't want to go overboard, but this case is not a stretch.
As for someone arguing that "we think they're dead therefore BLP rules don't apply", hit them with a damn big stick, that's just being silly.
Huh? How does "biography of living persons" apply to dead people?
If someone was last mentioned in a notable publication in 1820, and going to church records to establish when he died a little later would be an obvious breach of OR, we must assume that the BLP rules continue to apply 187 years later. :-)
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