On 21/12/05, Taco Deposit <tacodeposit(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/21/05, sydney poore <poore5(a)adelphia.net>
wrote:
To add unpublished details to a biography is an example of original
research.
(100% disagreement. A person's date of birth is not original research.
DOB is a basic fact of society. It is verified daily by a wide spectrum
of organizations.)
Weren't we just celebrating, a few months ago, how we were able to "scoop"
all the traditional news outlets on the news of Susan Sontag's death? That
was unpublished information (at the time).
It may be of some interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Andrea_Dworkin/Archive1 is the brief
debate we had over whether or not to go with unconfirmed reports of
her death. We predated the Guardian, the first major media to pick it
up, by at least 24 hours and probably more.
(I still think we should have waited until after the Guardian published, though)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk