[WikiEN-l] Looking up death dates in government death records: original research?

[Rob]

The real point should be if you have to rely on the Social Security
Death Index to tell you if someone is even alive or dead, you might
want to consider that you don't have enough reliable sources for an
article on that person.  This article, and most of the other
Venona-cruft, should be deleted as there is almost no historical
context or solid biographical info for any of them, they are just
noting a mention in decryption XY4J7 and leaving it at that.  Never
mind the fact that these Venona articles (this one was created by our
old friend Nobs) are the work of a cadre determined to use Wikipedia
to refight the Cold War.  I spent several unpleasant months fighting
an attempt by one of them to use a passing mention in a Venona decrypt
to rewrite [[Pablo Neruda]] to flatly state he was a KGB operative.