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I believe the statement in the "Personal life"-section to be of too private a nature and perhaps not suitable for Wikipedia. I also believe the statement to be poorly sourced. Wikipedia:Reliable sources (What is a reliable source?) says "Articles should be sourced to works [...] found in reliable publications with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." Can www.people.co.uk be considered to meet theese criteria? Any thoughts? --Bensin 01:52, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. The whole point of a "Personal life" section is to provide info of a private nature. The info here is tame in comparison to other people in the public eye, check out Britney Spears#Personal life for one. Wikipedia allows "Personal Life" sections to be included in bio articles so long as the info is sourced. I think that if you are unhappy about this then the best thing to do is try to change the overall poilicy, because censoring personal information from articles will be futile in the long run, as it will only be reincluded eventually.

The source from "The People" is just one source out of many that I came accross from a brief search. Shepherd's relationship with McCutcheon has been well documented: Evening Standard [1] The Mirror [ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20021222/ai_n12852778] [2] [3] BBC and others [4] [5] Gung adin ♦ 17:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 == Private information ==
 I believe the statement in the "Personal life"-section to be of too private a nature and perhaps not suitable for Wikipedia. I also believe the statement to be poorly sourced. [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources]] (What is a reliable source?) says "Articles should be sourced to works [...] found in reliable publications with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." Can www.people.co.uk be considered to meet theese criteria? Any thoughts? --[[User:Bensin|Bensin]] 01:52, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
+:I disagree. The whole point of a "Personal life" section is to provide info of a private nature. The info here is tame in comparison to other people in the public eye, check out [[Britney Spears#Personal life]] for one. Wikipedia allows "Personal Life" sections to  be included in bio articles so long as the info is sourced. I think that if you are unhappy about this then the best thing to do is try to change the overall poilicy, because censoring personal information from articles will be futile in the long run, as it will only be reincluded eventually.
+:The source from "The People" is just one source out of many that I came accross from a brief search. Shepherd's relationship with McCutcheon has been well documented: [[Evening Standard]] [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-80070733.html] [[The Mirror]] [ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20021222/ai_n12852778] [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010318/ai_n14521582] [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20051218/ai_n15939998] BBC and others [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1494947.stm] [http://www.htropic.ie/hotgoss.php?NID=166&archive=1] [[User:Gungadin|<font color="FF1493">Gung</font>]][[User_talk:Gungadin|<font color="0047AB">adin</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Gungadin|<font color="8B00FF">♦</font>]] 17:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)