On 5/1/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 5/1/07, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The real point should be if you have to rely on
the Social Security
Death Index to tell you if someone is even alive or dead, you might
want to consider that you don't have enough reliable sources for an
article on that person.
I could imagine lots of situations where a person's life was closely
followed during a certain period, and then the person dropped into
obscurity, to the point where no one in the media even noticed his/her
death.
True, there shouldn't be a rule prohibiting articles about people
whose death can't be verified for this very reason. But it is a
strong factor when considering whether or not to have an article at
all. There are people who fall into obscurity, then there are people,
like the subject of the article in question, who have dwelt in
obscurity their entire life.
This article,
and most of the other
Venona-cruft, should be deleted as there is almost no historical
context or solid biographical info for any of them, they are just
noting a mention in decryption XY4J7 and leaving it at that.
I agree emphatically with this, though I personally wouldn't have a
problem with a merge and redirect to [[List of Americans in the Venona
papers]].
Absolutely, a redirect would be fine for people on the list.