Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/G. Edward Griffin

G. Edward Griffin

It's an article about a controversial person (political and health writer and documentary film producer, president of activist organizations) and dealing with controversial and popular topics, such as the Federal Reserve System, cancer cures, or the discovery of Noah's ark. Since the article's resurrection after a hot AfD discussion and its survival of a second, a handful of friendly editors have steadily improved the article, especially in terms of content, neutrality, quality of sources and balance. Now the article appears to be more or less stable. We'd like to see the quality assessment catch up with those improvements, and would warmly welcome any constructive criticism for further improvement. FeelFreeToBe (talk) 15:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Yannismarou

• I do not think that the lead fulfills the criteria of WP:LEAD. It does not look to me as a proper summary of the whole article that could stand as a mini-article.
• Nothing interesting to include in "Early life" happened between 1956 and 1968?
• After 1968 I lose a bit the course of his career (already having the 1956-1968 gap!). The article selections and treats three particular issues, but it loses the overall picture. This should be a comprehensive biography; not just the treatment of just some interesting issues in a person's biography.
• "External links" go after "References". Done, thanks!
• Are there any additional personal info? E.g., is he married?

The article is well-referenced and well-written, but it needs further development and probably restructuring.--Yannismarou (talk) 15:00, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your comments! I'm especially grateful for your 1st and 3rd point, because these points are easy to miss when you're working on an article yourself. We'll work on them and I hope we'll be able to achieve improvements. As for points 2 and 5, it's difficult to find reliable information about Mr Griffin, and no detailed biography exists about him so far. Probably we could include further information, such as a sentence about his children, but we're trying our best to stick to WP:NPF and only include information related to his notability. The fact that he's mainly notable for a number of publications (when we look at only what we can source well) caused the structuring of the article into issues. With his relatively low degree of popularity, a comprehensive biography would probably be a bit of a stretch, therefore we're rather concentrating on those things that he's notable for. Any suggestions how the article could be restructured to meet both goals (not losing overall picture + avoiding not significant information)? Thanks again! FeelFreeToBe (talk) 23:50, 5 May 2008 (UTC)