Talk:Frank Chiaramonte

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CC of posting left on possible family-members' cites

Welcome to Wikipedia! As someone who respects the work of Frank Chiaramonte, and who wrote the initial entry, I'm overjoyed to see an editor (whom I presume to be a family member) fill in some biographical background material.

The Wikipedia guidelines, like those of any other encyclopedia, need to have you provide documentation for the material. I'm sure it's well-meant, but original research (which is what personal memory would be) isn't allowed on Wikipedia — footnotes and references need to be cited. For example, you wrote that Mr. Chiaramonte was born June 5, 1943. However, the federal government's Social Security Death Index, obtained via the Advanced Search option here, gives 1942:

FRANCISCO CHIARAMONTE
Birth: 05 Jun 1942
Death: Jan 1983
Death certificate issued in: New York

I need to trim the information to just that which can be verified via confirmable sources. If you are a family member, what I might suggest is to create a tribute site for Mr. Chiaramonte; that way, Wikipedia editors will be able to footnote that specific site as a source. Otherwise, the information given is technically anonymous hearsay. As we've seen from the June 2007 case of wrestler Chris Benoit's entry, uncited claims can be extremely problematic. Thanks for understanding the Wikipedia guidelines on this, and I do hope you take my suggestion under advisement. Frank Chiaramonte deserves his own site. --Tenebrae 16:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]