Talk:Jamie Smith (footballer, born 1989)

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The policy on writing articles about living people, WP:BLP, makes it very clear that anything about a living person should be verifiable from a reliable published source. Wikipedia pages don't count as reliable published sources: people write all sorts of things on Wikipedia, some of them are actually true :-) In particular, it's very important to source personal information, like what school someone went to, or their brother's name and whereabouts, to avoid making errors, whether good-faith or malicious, that can affect people's lives.

As to the list of other footballers who apparently went to the same school, that list is obviously relevant to the school, and, if properly sourced, would belong in a former students list on the school's page. Though without sources, someone might well remove them from there as well. Personally, I'm not sure how relevant it is to Jamie Smith's life and career that Teddy Sheringham etc went to the same school many years earlier, but if they were reliably sourced I wouldn't remove them again. The long list of clubs each played for is completely unnecessary and doesn't belong in an article about Jamie Smith. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 15:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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