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From: MacGyverMagic/Mgm [mailto:macgyvermagic@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 9, 2007 09:10 AM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: Opt Out for Not So Notable Biographies
On 4/9/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/04/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
> > You are describing original research. Putting together information you
> have gathered from various sources and creating a sort of biography. But it
> is a pseudobiography, without substantial reference to the person described,
> except as they have received incidental media coverage. A golem you yourself
> have breathed life into.
I don't see why compiling an article from multiple
sources would be original
research. It's actually good to do it. It means you've verified your info
from more than one source. Original research is when you interpret
information and draw conclusion from it, which I didn't do.
Notability is based on what someone did in real life, I don't see the way an
article was formed having any relevance to someone's notability.
Mgm
If the person is notable there will be verifiable material in reliable sources which set
out the course of the persons life. Original research based on scrapes of information
results in a "biography" on Wikipedia which by its nature must omit the
non-published information regarding the person necessary to produce an adequate
biography.
Fred