A fact from Mela Tenenbaum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 September 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the violinist Mela Tenenbaum recorded in the US works that Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in Ukraine, including Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble?
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On 15 September, an IP added her date and place of death, without a reference. Don't you think, Nikkimaria, that a ref not considered reliable is better than no ref at all? I don't think so. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps I was not clear. I don't think we should have a day and place of death with no reference, as you left it when you removed it. I understand that findagrave is regarded as unreliable when biographical data are in question, but why not use it for a place of burial and date of death when there is nothing else? (Different topic: blank lines in indented discussions confuse the program reading to the vision-impaired.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:07, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Having a user-generated source is essentially equivalent to having no source: in both cases it's an unsupported claim by a random netizen. But the difference is that having a citation makes it appear the claim is sourced - inappropriately so. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:27, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
