Defect 1 [14 September 2016]
See William Savil jr. in Savage 4:28. --Jrich 22:40, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- I originally took the view that any time Savage wrote more than one sketch for the same person - one of them was an error. The problem however - which one? Particularly if there's no other fact that can be pointed out as wrong between the two, nor a compelling argument that one offers a more acceptable spelling. So I took the view that the presence of multiple sketches for the same person were not fundamentally an error. I also don't want to strike out anything that - on it's own - isn't itself an error.
- On the other hand, I can accept that there's an implied error that ought to be noted in such circumstances. There's a question on how to handle it though:
- * Try to determine which of the two (or more?) sketches is the weak/inappropriate one on some basis - add the error there.
- * Add an error to all the sketches - noting the other sketches that we think apply to the same person. Since an error need not have any content text - it's fine to create an empty error on a "correct" sketch - flagging that there is a sketch somewhere else that applies to this person.
- I'll write up a little script to find all cases of more than one sketch for a given subject Person - and I'll add that information in a general location.
- --jrm03063 19:28, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
- It's an error. He is representing one person as two. There's not even a might-be-this-other-person qualifier. It's simple to pick which is the error. First, try reading savage's two entries. Which one has more details, more volume and shows multiple items came together in one person, and which shows one fact and he couldn't recognize that the variant spelling was the same person? Try seeing how other sources handle it. There's some posted on William Savil's page if you can't find any. Can't do that with a bot, though. --Jrich 22:33, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
- I am willing to treat these as errors. I'm just not agreeing that its necessary to make an arbitrary choice between the sketches - and then entirely strike through one of them as an error on that basis. Mark both as errors - but only strike through text that is believed to be objectively untrue. --jrm03063 02:47, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
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