On 10/4/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/10/2007, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/4/07, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Circular referencing incidents are particularly
likely given that
obituaries are often the best reference material available for a
decent living bio. So this sort of thing is particularly, um,
problematic for us.
Living bio? Surely an obituary will not exist, short of mistake.
-Matt
Some do (the Queen, former Prime Ministers, likely prince Charles) but
anyone significant enough to have one will have had a book written
about them.
--
geni
I once talked to a librarian at a major news organization here in the U.S.;
one of the most interesting things I learned was that a big part of her job
was doing biographical research on older famous people considered "likely to
die soon" -- so that when they actually did bite the dust, there would have
a nice obit ready to go. Apparently most news organizations do this.
Wikipedia, on the other hand, just scrambles to catch up :)
-- phoebe