[WikiEN-l] iCorrect

[Fred Bauder]

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> wrote:
>> On 28 March 2011 16:00, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You see the problem?
>>
>> Do I ever.
>
> Fred, a couple of points:
>
> 1) You missed out the attribution to geni when you reposted what he
> said (you made it look like David Gerard said what geni said, which
> would be wise to avoid here, and I agree with David that specific
> cases should be avoided here).
>
> 2) It is not clear whether you are agreeing or disagreeing with geni.
>
> The general discussion would probably best be focused on whether
> encyclopedia articles should be written using statements from the
> Crown Prosecution Service. It goes to the heart of whether you have
> up-to-the-minute reports on the "news", or whether you wait for things
> to settle down, for cases to be decided, and only then report on the
> bits that allow for encyclopedic coverage.
>
> I've argued before that the minimum standard for any biographical
> article should be a published biography of some sort, that at minimum
> includes birth year (or some details on why the birth year is not
> known). These can range from self-published on an official website, to
> short bios in conference proceedings, to an actual published
> book-length biography. What shouldn't be done is piecing together bits
> from newspaper articles and primary sources - that is what official
> and unofficial biographers do, and we shouldn't be doing it in their
> stead.
>
> Carcharoth

I have extensive experience with Giovanni Di Stefano (businessman)
regarding his Wikipedia article. I agree that some subjects present
difficult problems, and not just to us.

Fred