"David Gerard" wrote Wikipedia until they die and there are nicely-researched obituaries to use as sources. Yes, a high price to pay for getting your educational record straight. It's not so bad though. Many fairly stubby articles are there as placeholders _in case_ someone gets into the news. We have a stub on a scientist, who gets a Nobel out of the blue (can be for work done 15-20 years ago, quite easily). People look up the article as soon as the news hits the wire services, and the article burgeons in real time as academics look in to see what's here and sort it out. No article, they may not start one. Also, say it's a Swiss researcher, and that the German-language article is better than the English article. We do at least have that interwiki possibility, then. So let's not forget that WP has always had the low-grade articles, has thrived, and there is some connection. Charles

Even better, we're more free to criticize dead people because they can't sue us for libel. Would it be too unreasonable to propose WikiProject Assassinate People With Wikipedia Biographies? :P -- Philip L. Welch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch