[WikiEN-l] I'm disappointed in Wikipedia.

[Andrew Gray]

On 11/06/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:50:14 -0400, "David Goodman"
> <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Today's example is the Vice Chancellor of the  University of
> >Southampton, Bill Wakeham. Minimal article, but it did say he was V-C.
> >Prodded--by someone from the UK. Maybe it will be on AfD tomorrow. DGG
>
> Being V-C does not mean that non-trivial independent sources
> necessarily exist.
>
> /me checks for [[Gordon Higginson]], who was V-C when I was at Soton.
> Nope.  Professor Sir Gordon Higginson, DL, FREng, lacks an article. Ho
> hum.

Who's Who is a pretty good basis for an article, I find, for VCs or
people of that level - use Who Was Who if they're dead, and chances
are there's a Times or Telegraph obituary. It's not multiple
independent sources, but it gives a very good indicator of where you
should be looking for them.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk