On 28/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
michael west wrote:
I think you've gone far off topic and I don't think that vanity
publications have a place in Wikipedia. I used it as an example of simple biographical details. But would never use it to pad out a badly organised BLP that is just going to include what X has for breakfast.
So who's saying that we should report what anybody had for breakfast? Who determines which publication is a vanity publication? Who defines "padding out?
Ec The breakfast thing was an analogy used in one of the children/young people BLP debates, but notables indeed do tell us they love bacon and eggs. Vanity is a book you have to subscribe to to be included in. Padding out is an old stub warriors idea that probably was my mistake to use.