Talk:Repository for Germinal Choice

Disposition

What happend with all that sperm and eggs after this institution was closed? --Abdull 21:41, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

I don't know, but I do know that the demand was so high that they had to start accepting donors with much lower qualifications. I don't think they ever handled eggs, it was just a sperm bank. -Willmcw 22:17, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

According to Plotz' book, it only handled sperm. The Horizon (TV series) documentary that I saw on BBC 2 last night stated that the material was burned. The founders' family had no interest in running it. Autarch 20:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I think a link to the book My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl would be appropriate. The book is about a guy that invents a strong afrodisiac and sends his girlfriend to various celebrities and nobel prize winners for the 'sample collection'.

New source

The ever-interesting Straight Dope has recently covered this topic here. violet/riga (t) 10:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

The girl

What happened to her? Was she particularly bright? Would be good if we saw the results of the place.--EchetusXe (talk) 18:32, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Specific individuals

The project produced 215 children fathered by about 15 sperm donors [1]. One person who is a result of the project has been widely covered, by name, since birth. Others have gone public more recently [2]. Does WP:BLP prevent identifying those who have voluntarily had their names and histories published? Perhaps the rule could be that the child voluntarily goes public after reaching age 21, to head off children's privacy being impaired by their parent? A Google News Archive search for Repository for Germinal Choice shows several articles in reliable sources with coverage of some of the project participants. Edison (talk) 18:06, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

WP:BLP requires that the article cites a reliable news source for any identification of living individuals, but I don't believe it prohibits identifying anyone who has been identified already in the mainstream press. Whether or not the individual is a minor doesn't seem to apply. —Tim Pierce (talk) 18:14, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

My first, reflexive, inclination is that naming the people might be giving them undue weight/directing undue attention to them, considering their inherent notability-for-only-one-thing. But BLP is an area I am not very confident working in, so I'm hoping others are willing to weigh in here and provide more informed opinions. keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 18:16, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

This is a good point. There is a real risk of undue weight in the case of identifying specific people associated with the project. If one or two participants have been subject to a higher degree of attention than the others, then it probably makes sense to mention them by name, but probably not others. —Tim Pierce (talk) 18:20, 26 October 2010 (UTC)