[WikiEN-l] A morsel of substance, a truckload of nonsense

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/23/2009 12:16:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
oldakquill at gmail.com writes:


> Similarly, if a businessman were famous today for being a
> businessman, it would make sense to list the companies he has been a
> CEO of.
> 
> As David said above, it is a short article, so his landholdings take a
> up a large portion of it. Just add more biographical information.>>

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If a businessman were famous for being a businessman, would it make sense 
to list *every* company he has worked for, from the age of 16 onward.  That 
is the issue.  Not whether you list the most prominent companies.  Whether 
you list *all* of them.

That is the very heart of Undue Weight.  When you write a biography, you do 
not include every minute detail of every minute aspect of a person's life.  
Not even hard-bound biographies do this.  Certainly in 8 pages, you would 
weight the *differing* aspects of a person's life correspondingly, not 
focusing on a single aspect with a lead anchor, while the others are treated with 
a feather.

As  far as adding more details... you are assuming they exist.  I would 
submit that anyone who wants to research this man, do so.  You will find that 
those details simply do not exist.  We know very little truly about him 
directly.  The vast majority of what's been written about him (which is skant) is 
based on suppositions and background color, not on actual documentary 
evidence.

This is a moot point.  I am satisfied with the rolled-up listings.

Will




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