Talk:Lucy Irvine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
	This article is supported by the Arts and Entertainment work group.

This article has been automatically assessed as Stub-Class by WikiProject Biography because it uses a stub template. If you agree with the assessment, please remove {{WPBiography}}'s auto=yes parameter from this talk page. If you disagree with the assessment, please change it by editing the class parameter of the {{WPBiography}} template, removing {{WPBiography}}'s auto=yes parameter from this talk page, and removing the stub template from the article.

[edit] User:Chromaticity's comments

You left the following comment within the article code which I've now removed as it's easier to discuss here - "the preceding link is not verified and a less encumbered format would be nice". The link is from the BBC Radio 4 archive. It was verified on the date mentioned. What do you mean by a less encumbered format ?

As regards you request for citations, as with many biographies of people who are now out of the public eye, there are few, if any, references of WP approved authority. John 19:59, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

My comment was directed at the fact that it's a link to a RealAudio metafile. Wikipedia policy is to link to "container pages" for audio and visual media preferentially to the media itself. If the BBC has a page that "fronts" for this particular RealAudio metafile, that would be preferred to a direct link to the metafile. If you are aware of such a page, please change the link appropriately. Chromaticity 20:17, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I can only presume that I didn't link to the container page because it's a running order list - [1]. Personally I think that it's being more helpful to people to provide the direct link with a warning about it being RealAudio format John 22:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and to the link being "verified": what I did was verify that there is a RealAudio stream at that address. I did not download the content or listen to it as I do not have any player installed on my computer capable of doing so. For all I know, the content consists of two hours of recorded cow flatulence; therefore, the link is technically not verified except to the extent that some content exists at that address. Chromaticity 20:19, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Since you are not in the position to be able to verify a clip, labeling it unverified isn't helpful. I verified the clip on the date of access. John 22:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)