Talk:Heather Clark

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.
Biography Portal
Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
This article is supported by the Arts and Entertainment work group.
Photo request It is requested that a picture or pictures of this person be included in this article to improve its quality.

Note: Wikipedia's non-free content use policy almost never permits the use of non-free images (such as promotional photos, press photos, screenshots, book covers and similar) to merely show what a living person looks like. Efforts should be made to take a free licensed photo during a public appearance, or obtaining a free content release of an existing photo instead.

Contents

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Edofedinburgh 01:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 8/3/2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

[edit] Need a new link

Both of the external links were broken (404 errors). I found a replacement for one (the original article written by Clark), but I could not find a replacement for the "Clark explains her side of the story" link. Does anyone know of a working one? - Koweja 21:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Two twin sons

I don't see how the fact that she has two twin sons (as per the ASAP article, which unfortunately is no longer online) as irrelevant. We put marital status and children for politicians and other notable persons all the time, and it is SOP for almost every biography published by a person. I am going to WP:AGF here but the fact is that she made that statement in a self-written article. We're not going to Google here and finding out the name of her significant other, the name of the Unitarian church she goes to, or the names of said children. While her marital status is unverified, the fact she has sons is beyond dispute and helps to pad an otherwise scarce article. Calwatch 03:16, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm sorry, the fact that she has twin sons is incorrect. But I do think that it's irrelevant! And just for the record, she has been happily married for 6 years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.121.52.2 (talk) 10:31, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Actually...

Using the argument in WP:LIVING then no article should have been created for her at all. Looks like we have a nomination for deletion. Calwatch 03:44, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

As a reporter for AP, she is, arguably a public figure. The very existance of the article seems in line with the guidelines, so I don't see why we can't leave it be. VonWoland 07:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Then, as a public figure, the fact she has kids is relevant then, no? (I am not trying to make a WP:POINT here, although it may seem like it, but this is serious. Are all stringers for AP noteworthy?) Calwatch 08:55, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that a little-known AP reporter who has had very little influence over setting the public agenda could be considered a public figure. Thomas Friedman, sure, but not Heather Clark. Our article on public figures contains a bit more information about the necessary legal criteria to be considered one. Her noteworthiness stems mostly (entirely?) from her involvement in Stephen Colbert's "truthiness" affair. There are other bits of valid and verifiable information about Heather Clark that could be indiscriminately added, but we need to stick to encyclopedic information. In this case, information about her noteworthiness, truthiness. One way to expand the article would be to quote how she introduced the term "truthiness" (perhaps the lead paragraph of her article) or to expand on Colbert's response to her article. btm talk 06:41, 9 March 2006 (UTC)