Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography/2007 archive

Non-biographies

In non-biographical articles, would it be proper to use academic titles, e.g "according to Dr. Smith, this movie misrepresents science" or "Stan Smith, Ph.D. says this movie is really bad". Or is it just "Stan Smith says..." Doesn't seem to be right. Thanks! Dreadstar † 07:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

A more apt example may be an article on a documentary film, how are the partipants academic titles that are relevant to the movie presented? The documentary says "featuring Dr. Smith, specialist in foot diseases at the Mayo Clinic"...would it just be "Smith, specialist in foot diseases...". Dreadstar † 08:30, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think there's any problem with including academic titles within articles about other subjects as long as they're relevant. The rules about academic titles here only apply to the first line of a biographical article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:25, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, much, Necrothesp! We're having trouble with an editor who apparently is seeking to skew an article towards a certain POV and so wants to leave out their titles because he believes they are an "appeal to authority" in order to "lend false credibility" to the subject - but to me, to leave out their proper titles, which are relevant to the subject at hand (a documentary film with fictional aspects intertwined), seems to be really pushing a pov. Dreadstar † 16:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Subsequent reference pseudonym proposal

Please see the Pseudonym_guideline_wording section above for a new proposal that no one has commented on. --Melty girl (talk) 18:21, 20 December 2007 (UTC)