[WikiEN-l] In development--BLP task force

[wjhonson at aol.com]

Because I consider a biography to be an appropriate reduction of a 
person's life, while a "biography" is an inappropriate reduction 
focusing on one famous bit and a lot of silly or scandalous bits.  That 
a person is a pedophile might be interesting to appropriately document 
in a biography, however it should not really be a focal point of a 
biography, which should cover all parts of a person's life not just the 
parts that got splashed across the Weekly World News.  It is difficult 
to really create a biography without at least a substantial number of 
book citations.  However anyone can create a "biography" by gleaning 
inappropriate citations to fan magazines, scandal sheets and blog 
postings.

Will Johnson


-----Original Message-----
From: Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, Aug 7, 2009 1:04 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] In development--BLP task force


On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> Interesting examples.  For both O.J. and Phil I would assume we can 
 create
> fairly complete biographies using appropriate souces.
> I am doubtful that we could really make a "biography" for Gary Glitter
> without a lot of unacceptable sources being used, or a too full 
reliance on a
> single source.

Heh.

Why can OJ have a biography, Phil Spector have a biography but Gary
Glitter would have a... "biography".

Is it gr
ammatically correct to use scare quotes when talking about
paedophiles?  :o)

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