On 5/11/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(Of course, we later had an editor darkly hinting Wikipedia would be sued off the face of the planet if we asserted that [[Neil Gaiman]] was [[David Gaiman]]'s son, and never mind forty years of press sources on the subject, 'cos none had a photo, or something ...)
IIRC this was because there were sources saying David Gaiman the notable scientologist had a son called Neil, and lived in town X; and sources saying Neil Gaiman the author's father was named David and they also lived in town X - but no source saying 'David Gaiman the scientologist' and 'Neil Gaiman the author' were related.
The question was whether we were allowed to make the leap of logic that the two sources could be added together to create the obvious fact.
(at least, this was the state of play when I looked at it, decided the argument was dumb, and left it well alone).
-Matt