[WikiEN-l] The Curious Incident of the Fans in the Night

[quiddity]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/18 quiddity <pandiculation at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>> ...
>>> elsewhere.  Our rules generally don't say we can't use information unless
>>> it has *two* sources; and in this case it's obvious that the reason the
>>> information is hard to find is that Neil Gaiman is trying to keep it quiet,
>>> not that it isn't true.
>>>
>>
>> Unless there's a [[Template:Notable_Wikipedian]] tag missing from the
>> article's talkpage,
>> I suspect you probably mean "Neil Gaiman's /fans are/ trying to keep
>> it quiet". Not neilhimself...!
>
> The information is difficult to find in reliable sources - most of
> those are not edited by fans.
>

Ahh, Ken was talking about the sources themselves. I was concentrating
on the "removed from his Wikipedia
page by the site’s editors" quotation from the article, and completely
misunderstood what Ken meant. Apologies.

quiddity