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Wikipedia is not a soapbox for individuals to espouse their views. However, views held by politicians, writers, and others may be summarized in their biography only to the extent those views are covered by reliable sources that are independent of the control of the politician, writer, etc.
The simplest example is someone who continued to reside in their country of origin: Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman; The second example is someone who emigrated as a child and continued to identify as a citizen of their adopted country:
The information can come from "oral history, personal narrative, biography and autobiography" or "diaries, letters, memoranda and other materials". [25] The central aim of biographical research is to produce rich descriptions of persons or "conceptualise structural types of actions", which means to "understand the action logics or how persons ...
Example: A politician is alleged to have had an affair. It is denied, but multiple major newspapers publish the allegations, and there is a public scandal. The allegation belongs in the biography, citing those sources. It should state only that the politician was alleged to have had the affair, not that the affair actually occurred.
An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life. [1] Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for example: "Apple growing", "Baseball", "Cynthia" etc ...
A Short Autobiography: 1940 Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on a Road: 1942 Stefan Zweig: The World of Yesterday: 1942 Dylan Thomas: Holiday Memory: 1942 Richard Wright: Black Boy: 1945 George Orwell: Such, Such Were the Joys... 1947 Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian: 1951 Christy Brown: My Left Foot: 1954 Elie Wiesel ...
Alena Analeigh (Wicker) McQuarter (born November 19, 2008) is an American student who is the youngest person to be accepted into medical school in the United States, [1] [2] [3] and the second-youngest person to be accepted into medical school overall. [4] She is also the youngest person ever to work as an intern at NASA. [5] [3] [6]
Black students who had applied to the university's branch campus in Mobile were investigated by the university's department of Public Safety, including Malone. [2] After applying to the Mobile branch of the University of Alabama, Malone and her family had been visited by two white men who had claimed that they were representatives of the state.