Because I consider a biography to be an appropriate reduction of a person's life, while a "biography" is an inappropriate reduction focusing on one famous bit and a lot of silly or scandalous bits. That a person is a pedophile might be interesting to appropriately document in a biography, however it should not really be a focal point of a biography, which should cover all parts of a person's life not just the parts that got splashed across the Weekly World News. It is difficult to really create a biography without at least a substantial number of book citations. However anyone can create a "biography" by gleaning inappropriate citations to fan magazines, scandal sheets and blog postings.
Will Johnson -----Original Message----- From: Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Fri, Aug 7, 2009 1:04 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] In development--BLP task force On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > Interesting examples. For both O.J. and Phil I would assume we can create > fairly complete biographies using appropriate souces. > I am doubtful that we could really make a "biography" for Gary Glitter > without a lot of unacceptable sources being used, or a too full reliance on a > single source. Heh. Why can OJ have a biography, Phil Spector have a biography but Gary Glitter would have a... "biography". Is it gr ammatically correct to use scare quotes when talking about paedophiles? :o) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l