Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Miriam (entertainer)
I have been attempting to source a lot of unsourced statements and information in the Miriam Rivera article, including:
- birthdate
- place of birth
- aliases
- work in pornography
- claims about a recent hospitalization
I have also been trying to limit the citations to reliable published sources. Many exist from 2004, when the subject was in the public eye. However, other sources, including a message board and blog for sex workers and people attracted to them keeps getting inserted as a reliable source. I'm seeking outside opinions regarding the quality of sources after a lot of back and forth with an editor who insists WP:IAR trumps all policy regarding sourcing and reliability. Jokestress 16:31, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I have expressed my opinion in the article's talk page, and my reservations towards blogs. I am happy to see that the situation is calmer now there. Now, I understand the difficulty to source the information the article needs, but I don't think I can offer any original ideas. The article, as it stands now, is a start-class article; with some work and expansion it could get B.--Yannismarou 07:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I personally have not inserted anything into that article in quite a while. Look at the history of the article. I give Jokestress credit for writing a good article and urger her not to remove anything more. I also understand that their are some valid WP policy reasons for being cautious about the sources.. To be honest it seems as if Jokestress has problems with using hungangels as a source. As she said "However, other sources, including a message board and blog for sex workers and people attracted to them keeps getting inserted as a reliable source.(Jokestress)" So if it were a newspaper ran by and for transsexuals who are in adult entertainment would she still mention the fact that they are in adult entertainment? Why does that matter to her? Certainly people in adult entertainment would know who was who in those video's and pictures, Right?
I would rate the current article highly thanks mostly to Jokestress. However, I mean If it does not mention the following well known facts.
- aliases -- a common practice among the population of which she is a part.
- work in pornography -- A well known and undisputed fact, reportedly admitted to by her on There's Something About Miriam
- Facts about a recent violent attack and hospitalization -- will have to be added eventually.
Without those this will be a very incomplete biography. --Hfarmer 16:09, 1 April 2007 (UTC)