Geoff Burling wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Zoe wrote:
DW put this on my Talk page. Any comments? - Zoe
- What does "marketing expertise" have to do with writing biography?
Well, I don't want to defend DW's rudeness. But what he means, I think, is that thought should be given to creating a nice visual appearance and comfortable start to each articles. When a new visitor arrives, we want them to get the information they are looking for, without feeling overwhelmed by an excessively complex (or simple, or...) start.
That's not an unreasonable thought.
- Quite frankly, unless it's somehow relevant to the entry, occupation
would not add much useful information to many entries. For example, Wallace Stevens is better known as a poet, NOT as a corporate insurance executive. Many writers and poets would end up being catagorized as "college professor" (e.g. Richard Hugo), "government clerk" (Baudelaire), "landowner" (practically anyone whose name has survived from before AD 1000), etc.
Right. I think he meant to say, instead of 'occupation', something like 'very basic tidbit of why we should care about this person'.
Sometimes, it's due to occupation (Einstein, physicist), but not always (Todd Beamer, software salesman).
--Jimbo