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Erdős number in introduction

Do others agree with me that having someone's Erdős number in the introduction is awkward? __meco (talk) 08:07, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree. Maybe it should go in the bio section, with the names of those whose co-authorship earns him the number. On it's own it reads a bit like his shoe size, at least to someone unfamiliar with the term. Kevin (talk) 10:20, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Please discuss reverts

The incident concerning Hewitt's ban by Misplaced Pages administrators excited worldwide comment, as is easily shown by reliable sources.
To insist that it not be noted in the article seems inexplicable.

Calamitybrook (talk) 21:58, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

The idea is "revert & discuss." So will revert.

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Page protection

Calamity Brook, I've protected the page to prevent a BLP violation. There's consensus (see the archives and history) that this material is inappropriate. The person who drew the media's attention to the situation, and who acted as the source, was also involved in the ArbCom case in opposition to the subject, so it was an unfortunate situation that's best left behind us. The page has been calm recently, and hopefully it will stay that way. SlimVirgin

Consensus has changed as of now.
Your not making a coherent argument.
Deepthroat both drew the media's attention to Watergate and acted as a source. So what??
There are two major news sources quoted from UK and from NZ, and a significant news source from Germany. Undoubtedly there are numerous other reliable sources.
Understand that these are quite clearly very reliable secondary sources that are spread worldwide in at least a couple of languages. That's all that's required for expanding an article in Misplaced Pages, despite the views of a few administrators.

Calamitybrook (talk) 01:26, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I've explained why it's a BLP violation, CB, and I don't really want to get into the details on this talk page. Suffice to say the circular sourcing was problematic. If you disagree with me, you're welcome to take it to the BLP noticeboard. SlimVirgin 01:38, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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