Editorial Policies

Standards for inclusion

Individuals:

• More information science than libraries (LHRT has done a wonderful job with library science, and we don't want to duplicate efforts).
• Define 'notable'
• Still living or deceased? (ASIS&T Award of Merit, etc. should be included)

Organizations and Companies:

Biographical Index should continue to the policy of selectively including entries of companies and organizations with international scope and entries that focus narrowly on why the organization is or was noteworthy in relation to documentation and information science. The English Wikipedia entry for the Concilium Bibliographicum (Zurich, 1895-1940), although it deserves some expansion, would be a good model to follow.

Manual of Style

Editorial policies will follow the English Wikipedia policies and style, In particular, we make mandatory the “Further reading” and “External links” sections that are optional in the English Wikipedia. When useful detail might overwhelm an article, the extra detail could be made a separate, supplementary page. The obvious example is where a complete bibliography of the biographee’s writings, possibly hundreds of items long, is available. If it can be easily preserved on some other platform, then that is recommended and a link should be provided. If not, we could make it a separate, related page. Similarly with a complex list of archival sources for a single biographee.

Non-English articles in the language of the biographee will be allowed non-anglophone experts are more likely to contribute if they can write in their own language and because in some cases that language will allow more scholarly precision. We will need to arrange for a parallel English translation page.

Harmonization with the English and other Wikipedias will be achieved by:

1.     Always supplying an External Link in our stub or article to the English Wikipedia page and/or an excellent page in another Wiki;

2.     Adopting and adapting text from the Wikipedia article if it strengthens the documentation and information science part of our article. Other aspects not so much;

3.     Strengthening Wikipedia article, when appropriate, with respect to the biographee’s role in documentation and information science;

4.     Adding an external link from the Wikipedia page our article.

All entries are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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