Talk:Jude Deveraux

Deveraux victim of major fraud?
The Sun Sentinel (Fla.) so reports in Fortune tellers defrauded bestselling author of $20 million, feds say, citing a federal prosecution of the scheme and identifying her via the phrasing, "Several sources with knowledge of the case said the victim is Jude Deveraux..." Including other victims doubles the fraud to $40 million.

Our Wikipedia article also needs info on Deveraux's son's adoption and death. --96.233.94.117 (talk) 13:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. :) We would need something more definitive to report that she was victim of a fraud than "several sources", I'm afraid. Our WP:BLP policy requires that we use impeccable sources when reporting information on living people. As to her son's adoption and death (poor Ms. Deveraux!), certainly tasteful information can be introduced, particularly as the article you link indicates that it impacted her life. The article on her is still very short, and Wikipedia tries to keep articles properly "weighted". In other words, we're supposed to try to balance articles according to what is most notable about a person and what is most discussed in sources. So we should focus mostly on her careers as a novelist, with more passing references to other biographical materials, unless those biographical materials become a major focus of press. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:31, 27 August 2011 (UTC)