On 5/20/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Out of curiosity, why do you think nationality ("American") is relevant, but not race, place of birth etc? Can we formalise some guidelines?
There is a guideline somewhere, or a rule of thumb that the ethnicity-list editors use, but I can't remember where I saw it. I believe it says we should add to the intro the nationality the person held at the time they became notable (just the nationality, not the ethnicity). I may be misremembering it because that sounds as though it could get complicated, but it was something like that.
Sarah