Talk:List of philatelists

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[edit] Name removal

This page includes the names of several people who are not known as philatelists or stamp collectors. Here are four, who have brief biographies which do not seem to mention stamps:

• Anatoly Karpov
• Pierre Langlois
• James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
• William Stone

The page also lists many people well known for their philatelic achievements. Nevertheless, we do not have an article to delineate their work. Among them:

• Stanley B. Ashbrook
• Robson Lowe

Follow-up note

We may have some basis for the listing of Karpov. He had a substantial topical collection of chess stamps. However, the Wikipedia article on Karpov does not say he was a philatelist, nor that he collected stamps.

A German website says Lindsay had a collection of philatelic literature, but no basis for that claim appears. Lindsay was known as a benefactor of astronomy, and he assembled a famous collection of literature about astronomy.

No evidence appears for Langlois or Stone.

I propose to remove Langlois, Lindsay and Stone for "lack of evidence" so to speak. We should follow the cautionary principle used in medicine, "First, do no harm."

A great number of the names on the list do not have a biographical notice in Wikipedia, and for these we need at least a stub. I will make an effort with those names most familiar to me, to provide at least a stub. {{unsigned|User:Fconaway}

As mentioned on my talk page all the above except Pierre Langlois have sources and are in the APS Hall of Fame, so deserve a link in the hopes of a future page. Do a decent Google search and you will come up with Karpov in a few of the first results if you include the word stamps. I already reverted the edit by Fconaway BTW, you really should sign all your talk edits. Thanks for the input. ww2censor 02:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)