Talk:Richard Foord

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Wife's name, non-work interests

Any more views on this repeated removal of sourced and, to me, relevant, content? PamD 07:11, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

At present two editors believe it should be in the article (it was added by @Qwfp: and reinstated by me) and one (@Æñøï:) believes it should be removed. PamD 07:16, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

From WP:BLPNAME: "The presumption in favor of privacy is strong in the case of family members of articles' subjects and other loosely involved, otherwise low-profile persons. The names of any immediate, former, or significant family members or any significant relationship of the subject of a BLP may be part of an article, if reliably sourced, subject to editorial discretion that such information is relevant to a reader's complete understanding of the subject". Is his wife's name relevant to a complete understanding of the subject?
as for self-declared lists of interests, this is trivia, and promotional in tone. It is the kind of thing that might appear in a constituency newsletter or a magazine profile; it is not the kind of thing that an encyclopaedia should be troubling itself with. Æñøï (talk) 16:42, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Think it’s important to show his wife’s name to show he is married to a woman. Not all men are married to women, you know?--Egghead06 (talk) 16:53, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you really think it is important to show that, you could easily do so without naming her in violation of the presumption in favour of her privacy. Æñøï (talk) 17:44, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that his wife's name should not be included per WP:BLPNAME (which I often cite in my own edit comments). On reflection some of the interests I added from the Bristol Post profile piece probably aren't really worth including (cycling and running are too common to be noteworthy without further info, while his interest in international relations is already clear from his former university jobs), but I would argue that his membership of Sustrans is worth including as it is in part an advocacy group that has contact with politicians. Scouting and mountain walking seem debateable - the Mountain Leader qualification appears to involve a non-trivial amount of work so seems worth including to me. --Qwfp (talk) 11:03, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]