Talk:Patricia Smith
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[edit] Links dealing with fabrication scandal
Anon User:151.205.121.108 is there a reason you have deleted links pertaining to the fabrications Patricia Smith made while working at The Boston Globe? They are obviously relevant to her biography; the scandal is probably the number one thing most people know about her. If you don't respond here with a good reason that you removed them, I will add them back.--ColForbin 23:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Anon User:68.161.163.209 is there a reason you deleted the links? I didn't revert the first user's change, but someone else did. The fabrication scandal is probably the most notable thing about Smith, as it has definitely garned the most media attention outside of poetry circles. I think they definitely belong, as does the sentence in the introductory paragraph about the fabrication that was also removed. I won't put the links back yet, as I would prefer that you do so. --ColForbin 17:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
The FACTS are that she resigned after acknowledging there were fictional people in TWO of her columns. I always leave that in. This was, given all of her accomplishments, a rather minor event in her creative life. More importantly, much of the information in the links others keep adding to this listing contain false and even libelous information about the Globe affair. I have intimiate, first-hand knowledge of these events; I know what I am talking about.
- whatever facts you may have, wiki needs online SOURCES and REFERENCES. there haven't been articles found about suing anyone for libel.
- Here's a Globe link to a story where she admits to FOUR. It might be a minor event in her "creative life" however, it's what gained her nationwide notoriety and cannot be removed from her biography.
It's not a matter of removing it. It's in there, in a sentence. It's a matter of putting it in its proper perspective and not overstating the importance of one nearly ten-year-old incident in a long, her creative life. It's also a matter of not referring people to stories that are factually incorrect.
- Noire1 -- please STOP REMOVING SOURCED ITEMS from the article, including live links. thanks!
