On 19/08/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
I agree with your basic point, but what would you do in the case of a mathematician of whom we have 200 words on his career and publications, and 200 words on him getting sacked for molesting a student? We might easily find 30 news stories on the latter, and very few news stories on the rest of his career. Applying our basic "if it's verifiable, it's includable" guideline might distort the overall impression we give...
It comes down to a question of balance. See above.
More than that - and this is an important point that tends to sail over the heads of those didactic about guidelines - it's a question of *editorial judgement*. All these rules of thumb are only useful exactly as far as they are applied with a clue.
I do so wish people would stop trying to legislate cluefulness. Read [[m:Instruction creep]] until you understand why.
- d.