Talk:Russell Schulz-Widmar

Berlin truck attack – appropriate to cover?

Schulz-Widmar survived, with injuries, the 2016 Berlin truck attack. Googling him and the attack together will find you plenty of references, for example on the Patch website's section for Austin, TX, news and a few others that Europeans cannot currently access. More recently, he is featured in a very powerful Guardian piece about the survivors of terrorist attacks.

My question is whether other editors think it is appropriate to include this in his article. Obviously, I wonder, but am not at all sure – which is why I raise it here. It's not exactly a confidentiality issue: that it happened is out there already and the fact that he's done interviews seems to suggest that he is not unwilling to acknowledge it. My worry is more just whether it makes sense as good editing – or even in terms of policy! – to mention it. At the moment it's just a nice and useful article about a composer; it would change its fundamental nature somehow to add this monstrous thing that happened to him, and it would be a most unusual thing to have a composer article suddenly talking about this major, nightmare, external issue. I just don't know, and don't want to make a decision without other editors' input. Or at all, tbh. I was very moved by what he said in the Guardian piece (as, yes, I was by the whole thing) but I am not sure that that is a criterion for inclusion. I am shutting up now in the hope that wiser editors will have something (a) sensible and maybe even (b) policy-based to add to this. Yours in some confusion, and with thanks 82.39.96.55 (talk) 19:12, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

References

The RSCM and marriages

These two little worries / requests for clarification are, I hope, more straightforward than the bigger worry above.

• In the lead – which may in any case be the wrong place for it – we say: He is married to Hubertus Schulz-Wilke and this seems to be now as of ... whenever.
• In the body, section Biography, paragraph 2, he is, in 1971, married to Suzanne Widmar.

It might be nice to have some resolution. The two statements' positions are distant and they give a somewhat blunt, unexplained impression. If his spouses need to be in then maybe they need structuring a bit too, please?

Then in the first paragraph of Biography we have this:

• He also studied at the Royal School of Church Music in London/Croydon.

What does this mean? I can see that it might be shorthand for something, but I hesitate to speculate about exactly what that is. Personally – maybe it's just me, but I do live in London so hey – I find it confusing and I think it would be much much better if we were to specify what we really mean here instead of leaving it a bit ... fuzzy.

I do hope that someone who sees my points also knows enough to resolve them! Thank you 82.39.96.55 (talk) 19:39, 25 May 2019 (UTC)