[WikiEN-l] Looking up death dates in government death

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 5/2/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>(Yeah, original research, novel synthesis, I know. Sort of maybe; the
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>If so, OR is shooting us in the foot. The important thing is that we
>document how we reached that conclusion so others can decide if they
>respect it or not. Obviously we don't want to go overboard, but this
>case is not a stretch.
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>>As for someone arguing that "we think they're dead therefore BLP rules
>>don't apply", hit them with a damn big stick, that's just being silly.
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>Huh? How does "biography of living persons" apply to dead people?
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If someone was last mentioned in a notable publication in 1820, and 
going to church records to establish when he died a little later would 
be an obvious breach of OR, we must assume that the BLP rules continue 
to apply 187 years later. :-)

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