Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Bennett Greenspan

Bennett Greenspan

To date, this article has been edited from the genetic genealogy perspective. I would like to bring this up to an A quality article. To do that, I would like to hear from those with more of an interest in entrepreneurship and biographies of CEOs. Comments from those who simply like quality writing are most welcome. --RebekahThorn (talk) 22:37, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

After a very, very quick review, I do have some concerns that might prevent this from becoming an A article. At first I was concerned about the sourcing and notability - but even though many sources seem low quality or closely related to the subject, there are at least 3, maybe 8, clearly reliable sources. But none are NYT quality sources, clearly high quality sources would be very helpful.

Another concern is that the article seems somewhat promotional, perhaps even written by the corporate PR department. The guy seems to be a "good guy" and I'm not encouraging anybody to dig up dirt on him, but a more balanced approach (non-semi-hagiographic?) would be appreciated.

Related to the above, 2 of his related companies have articles Gene by Gene and Family Tree DNA. Merging these, or even merging all three articles would lessen my concerns.

I would dearly love to merge the two company articles, but I will finish my cleanup of Family Tree DNA before dealing with Gene by Gene in a way that will not start an edit war. --RebekahThorn (talk) 15:51, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

I don't have any objection to the merging of these two articles, and am more or less stepping aside from this lot as it is not a productive use of my WP editing time. I pushed through on BG because I wanted to finish what I started. Helen (talk) 16:15, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm not accusing anybody of WP:COI here. The articles, e.g. might have been written by a huge fan or a doting grand-daughter. If they were written by the corporate PR department, they have done a fairly good job of trying to be balanced, but if all BLP articles were written in this tone, I think Wikipedia's reputation for BLP articles would go down. Tone, of course, is a matter of personal opinion. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 15:02, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. That is exactly my concern. We are talking about someone with a highly charismatic personality, so finding those who can work with the material and be balanced is not easy. There isn't a PR department per se. Sourcing anything even vaguely negative would be challenging to say the least. The man has critics, but he seems to lack reputable reliable critics. I think we would have to have him grilled by Barbara Walters first. --RebekahThorn (talk) 15:51, 29 June 2013 (UTC)