[WikiEN-l] iCorrect

[Scott MacDonald]

Good grief, Carcharoth, there it is!!!!! Brilliant!

I've been stumbling about for years looking for a way to differentiate
between legitimate encyclopaedic biography, which Wikipedia should do, and
the problematic, armature-journalistic, selectively biased, originally
researched, WP:NOTNEWS skirting, stuff that causes all the problems. If we
could just agree on that definition you've given all would be well.

No chance of that happening, unfortunately.

Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Carcharoth
Sent: 28 March 2011 17:29
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

>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

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