Talk:Linda Greenhouse

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[edit] journalism conference?

I'm not sure how notable this journalism conference in Aug. 2007 is. It seems like a minor kerfluffle at best. ... In the meantime, it was not very understandable from the text, so I added a little more detail so one can at least understand what happened. But I'm happy to have it deleted altogether. Thoughts? --lquilter 03:22, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Agree - This seems to be a minor spat. This whole article needs work, and I'm not even sure she deserves her own page. Are all Pulitzer prize winners considered notable?—G716 <^T·_C> 22:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if all Pulitzer Prize winners are notable; I haven't given it much thought. But Greenhouse is clearly notable -- she's the major writer and commentator on US legal affair for the mainstream press. --lquilter 02:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Agree, although I would consider Nina Totenburg of NPR to be on par with Greenhouse. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 04:08, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] marital status

Does info about her husband add anything useful to the article? Does this violate any wikipolicies on biographies of living persons? I removed the text about her husband as it does not seem to fit, but am willing to re-insert. —G716 <^T·_C> 23:36, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

It's fairly common to include basic biographical facts of personal nature in biographical articles. Births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, are matters of public record, so they're not "private", per se, and I don't believe they would violate WP:BLP (at least, I haven't seen it in there). However, they should be referenced -- so if no third-party source has chosen to write about this information about Greenhouse then we have no reference for it. --lquilter 14:52, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

OK, if I come across a ref, I'll add back in. I'm going to read her Radcliffe speech and some of the articles about her in the next few days to see if I can make the article here a bit clearer. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 04:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)