Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive/February 2008

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Contents 1 Fair use rationale for Image:Nonagaye.jpg 2 Something that may amuse ... or concern 3 Athanasius Kircher FAR 4 AfD: Admiral Jay DeLoach 5 AfD: Lola Corwin 6 Thomas Wolsey

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Nonagaye.jpg

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[edit] Something that may amuse ... or concern

Although I've often voiced my concerns about certain Wikpolicies and guidelines, BLP has my full support, so when I was visiting another Wiki and saw this, I cringed. I won't mention the wiki because I don't want to start a fight, but in a nutshell in a biographical article (on a person who is dead, but that doesn't matter), an editor basically refused to add information about the person based on the fact that a non-fiction work relating to the subject had just been published and he didn't want to impact sales of the book by including information from the new book! I have to admit I was really stunned by that. Once a book is released to the public, the information becomes fair game (assuming proper accreditation is given). Can you imagine if folks here suddenly decided that books (or at least recently published books) couldn't be used as sources for fear the writers might lose sales? We'd have a mess on our hands! Very strange indeed. 23skidoo (talk) 22:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

The other guys are 100% wrong. Besides it could only help sales of the new book to have it cited. Redddogg (talk) 03:35, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Athanasius Kircher FAR

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[edit] AfD: Admiral Jay DeLoach

Jay A. DeLoach. This B-rated article was listed for deletion. Please chime in on the Discussion page. -BizMgr, 06:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD: Lola Corwin

Article tagged for AfD unless someone disagrees. --BizMgr (talk) 14:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Wolsey

Thomas Wolsey - This article on Cardinal Wolsey (who hopefully you'll agree is a fairly high profile western historical figure) needs a massive amount of attention. It contains almost no references and an awful lot of opinion. I wanted to flag it up somewhere because it won't be a quick fix and might be a good candidate for a biography collab as its quite a poor article on such a significant figure. Cheers Sassf (talk) 16:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)