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Dattner was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a good deal of printed material about him and the adventure playgrounds that dates from that time. But
by mjd 4y ago
Dattner was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a good deal of printed material about him and the adventure playgrounds that dates from that time. But it is not available online; to find it, I needed to walk into actual libraries.
Sometimes good research takes actual effort.
- jacobolus 4y agoYou should at the least make a stub article for Dattner with a few sentences about who he was, and a few citations to the most important printed material you found about him. If you have time, you could write a more complete biography of a few paragraphs, again with citations to relevant literature. (And likewise for your other suggestions.) There are many, many interesting people missing from Wikipedia. The only way they ever get added is if those who miss their absence do something about it. Making a list of “stuff missing from Wikipedia” and hosting it at your own site is much less useful.
- dhx 4y agoI do agree that books are the primary source of information for most subjects pre-2000, but at some point the books become so obscure that outside of a special reading room request made to the central library of a large country, no one would be able to verify the one or two book references on a Wikipedia article that would adequately describe the subject.
- ghaff 4y agoWell, that is one of the--for lack of a better term--fictions that Wikipedia (at least in theory) leans on. Which is to say an admin may or may not decide to follow the fiction. But, in theory, so long as something is cited whether or not as a practical matter a person would realistically look up the cite that should be sufficient. Of course, even verifying the cite could also be hard in practice.