[WikiEN-l] Unsourced biographies

[Ray Saintonge]

phoebe ayers wrote:

>On 4/26/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
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>>Mark Wagner wrote:
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>>>*90% of these articles have neither footnotes nor references.
>>>*About half have only links to official or fan websites.
>>>*25% have nothing that could be considered a source under even the
>>>most generous definition.
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>>You do realize that many of these were likely sourced to the "official"
>>biographies on the official/fan websites, right?
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>If the article in question can only be sourced to such websites (university
>bios, musical group bios, fan websites) or can only be sourced to current
>newspaper articles, and there are no other sources available, no matter how
>hard we look (no traditional encyclopedia entries, no who's who, no "music
>of the 1990s" book entries, no printed bios or interviews in magazines, etc)
>then that seems like a reasonable point to consider whether we need the bio.
>Remember that short official bios and newspaper articles rarely give a
>person's life in complete, npov detail... but without more sources, neither
>can we. 
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For authors we also have dust-jacket bios.  They are far from complete, 
but they are NPOV to the point of blandness..  The result may be a stub, 
but that at least can put the author in somw kind of historical context 
and environment.

Ec