Talk:Maureen Cleave

The Beatles' miscellanea
Check The Beatles' miscellanea to see if there is anything in it you can use. A lot of 'miscellanea' needs to be trimmed (as linked articles are improved) so please feel free to use anything before certain sections get zapped into the ether... ThE bEaTLeS aka andreasegde 16:30, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

factual error
Maureen Cleave has never "worked for the London Evening News" as your entry claims. This newspaper (now defunct) was the direct rival to her own employer, the Evening Standard.

According to Wikipedia rules, an entry cannot make any claims about a living person unless those facts can be sourced. Thus, if a biography has not been written about the person - and none has been written about Ms Cleave, neither does she appear in Who's Who - then you cannot even publish an entry in Wikipedia on her. As a lifelong colleague, my testimony appears to be dismissed as unreliable, because I am a "primary source" which to a journalist is a tool of the trade.

I have tried reaching people at Wikipedia with copious facts in the hope that somebody could insert them into this item, and no help has been forthcoming. But other than her published work, your rules about verification would disallow all other content. (Curiously you do currently allow one very tertiary source to appear as a lone footnote - why should this book-plug in the footnote be regarded as accurate? - when a quick google would provide several links directly to the full article from which the famous quotation comes.)

According to your rules, there is no proof that Ms Cleave ever existed, so why not delete this entry from Wikipedia altogether? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.200.241 (talk) 23:42, 23 March 2010 (UTC)