Ummm... common sense says that if someone says what their birth name is, about 50 years after they were born, when decades of documentation -- including interviews -- says something different, that someone is making up the new info.
Either Demi Moore was incorrect in 1996, or she is incorrect now. Either People Magazine, Encyclopedia Britannica, the New York Times, and the World Almanac are incorrect, or Demi Moore now is incorrect. Both common sense and Wikipedia policy should give weight to reliable sources, especially when Demi Moore has conflicting statements. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Steve Summit wrote: > >> Summary: Demi Moore, in a tweet but verified as being her, says that > her own > >> birth name is Demi. Wikipedians do not want to use this statement > because > >> the "reliable sources" say otherwise. > > And, per that talk page, they've got some pretty darn good arguments. > > Except for common sense. > > Common sense says that if someone tells you what their birth name is, you > believe them, not something that's probably misinformation but which has > been multiply repeated. > > Someone on BLPN is actually arguing that WP:IAR *doesn't allow you to > ignore > sourcing policy*. Of course it does. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
