On 5/2/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)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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