It would worry me if people are leaving out the names of children long long dead over some sense of notability. Notability does not apply to each sentence within an article. It applies to the article as a whole. If anyone is concerned about cluttering the bandwidth, it might be good to look at the list of largest articles, some exceed 100K.
That a subject had children is quite important in my view, in writing a biography.
In a message dated 2/22/2009 5:05:04 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, bkovitz@acm.org writes:
This worries me. As Charles Matthews said, it would terrible to make a rigid, general rule about this, but most mentions of subjects' children strike me as unnotable. That is, they clutter the bandwidth. Sources tell much, much more than is suitable for an encyclopedia. We are summarizing the highlights, not attempting to report every fact.
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