Talk:Bernard C. Webber
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Genealogy addition edit
Recently, an anonymous IP has added and edit-warred over extremely weakly sourced genealogical information. The entire source presented is:
- Thomas Webber, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1643 [3]Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The reference is to 4 volumes - you couldn't get much more vague and, as such, unverifiable. Beyond that, most published genealogies fall in to the category of WP:QUESTIONABLE as WP:OR. That source would also have to document all 8 generations and being the exact same Webber as the subject of the article.
Even if the statement was verifiable and the source was reliable, WP:NOTGENEALOGY applies. That some or all of his ancestors may have lived in Massachusetts, is completely irrelevant to his biography.
While edit warring, the IP falsely claims WP:OSE as a basis for inclusion.
Does anyone besides the IP feel that this information is relevant, verifiable and should be included? Toddst1 (talk) 15:32, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- On the contrary, I feel that the anonymous poster's genealogical information is at best trivia and at worst a useless bit of information that lends nothing to the article. The average reader might want to know where Webber was born and when...perhaps who his parents were...maybe...if that information is verifiable and cited properly. Someone interested in genealogy might be interested, but really the vast majority of the readers of this article are interested in Webber's career and the rescue work he and his crew performed. That should be the thrust of the article. Cuprum17 (talk) 23:25, 5 December 2021 (UTC)