On 29/03/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/29/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
- Now, he gets divorced in messy circumstances - his wife accuses him
of sleeping with her sister or something. it is all there is the on-line court reports. Do we include it? No - and perhaps court reports should not count for BLP sourcing - if it isn't in the mainstream media ignore it.
A related sourcing question: Normally, we state whether someone is married or not, and who to. In this case, we would say he was divorced. We would like to reference that statement. What do we cite? If we site the small town newspaper, are we any better off? What if we cite the court proceedings? Eep.
We hope we can find a recent biographical sketch from his university which calls him divorced :-)
I touched on this earlier wrt citing the subjects of biographies to support their article; a very common case is "you have me married to so-and-so, we divorced 1994", because old sources don't get updated (and mildly-public figures tend to have low-profile divorces)