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Hi, this article needs some references to back up Mr. Soltis's notability. --Rocksanddirt 20:30, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Isn't being a grandmaster sufficiently notable? If grandmaster title is less rare than it used to be, it should be noted that Soltis achieved the title in the years when it was quite rare indeed.--Jrm2007 (talk) 10:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WP:BLP is a high level priority one policy on the Wikipedia. There isn’t a policy which trumps it. Indeed, WP:BLOG makes this clear: “Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer.” (Emphasis in original). That in mind, we can not put contentious claims about Mr. Soltis in this article unless they are published by reliable sources. It doesn’t matter if Edward Winter is an expert. It doesn’t matter if we attribute the contentious claim to Mr. Winter. We can not put contentious claims about a living person in the Wikipedia until a more reliable source than Winter’s blog publishes the claim in question! That’s Wikipedia policy. Samboy (talk) 17:55, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
