Talk:Ethel G. Hofman

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I removed this paragraph:

Her newspaper columns (besides covering the food aspects of the annual Jewish calendar) featured recipes written, or adapted, for the kosher kitchen from around the world, including the Pacific Northwest, Paris, Jerusalem, Tunisia, London, Scotland and the United States. They recognized the worldwide economic downturn of the early 21st Century, as well as trends in the kosher food industry.

Which included numerous citations, of the same type:

I removed the paragraph because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia; per WP:NOT, it's not an indiscriminate collection of information. It's an overview, and it's a reflection of what reliable, published sources think is important.

Moreover, when a Wikipedia editor combines a bunch of snippets of information (as above) and then summarizes them (as above), this is not acceptable - it's original writing. Such a summary must come from a reliable source to be acceptable.

Finally, this type of citation vastly overstates the importance of a topic. For example, the publisher of most small newspapers normally write a column or more per week; most small newspapers have writers whose byline appears at least once per week. Following the logic above, then, one could create a Wikipedia article for such an (otherwise non-notable) person that would have hundreds of citations - very impressive, and very wrong. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:34, 3 April 2013 (UTC)