[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 13:24:31 UTC 2009


2009/3/3 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:

> With respect to biographies of living persons, unless there is sufficient
> reliable published information about a person to flesh out a well
> balanced article we shouldn't have one.


The question them becomes "reliable." "Reliable sources" usually print
whatever the subject tells them, even if it's a damn lie. (See the
Polish example earlier in this thread.)


- d.



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