Talk:Blair Hornstine

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[edit] Resume highlights?

The phrase "other resume highlights" and the following bulleted list seem completely nonenyclopedic. If anything, a single sentence listing a few representative items should be plenty. These accomplishments are of interest only as an illustration of her academic reputation and success, which we can pretty well surmise from the story itself. Remove? emw 04:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I think it's important to leave the bit about her being an Olympic torch carrier, as it bears on the honesty of her claim to be so physically disabled as to be incapcable to taking gym class. As for the rest, it can stay or go, so long as the remaining text makes clear that Hornstine was an ambitious, accomplished young woman. Uucp 02:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I think it sounds like cheerleading-Occassional Wikipedia User

[edit] Where is she now?

There is a Blair Hornstine at St. Andrews, as a variety of recent editors have suggested without evidence. Her e-mail address is elided@st-and.ac.uk. I would not feel comfortable including this claim of alma matter in the article without proof that this is the *same* Blair Hornstine. And I, frankly, do not incline to e-mail her and ask. Uucp 22:31, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Review WP:LIVING for guidelines on how to handle biographies of living people. Also, WP:NOR reminds us that original research in the form of rumor or Internet phonebook searches does not belong here. There is one quote in the bio policy, "Wikipedia is a encyclopedia, not a newspaper." I believe the current ending of "...has kept out of the limelight" is sufficient, and we should not add any speculative information about "where is she now" unless she makes a public statement. I have taken the unusual step of eliding the email address written above; I realize that it can be easily found with a little bit of research, but I see no reason to include the email address of a potentially random, uninvolved person in the Wikipedia talk database. Random Task (T·C) 15:29, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I removed an edit just now that mentioned "websites" as a source for Hornstine's current location. Again, we don't know if it's the same person, and WP:NOR this is not the place for investigative encyclopedia writing. Random Task (T·C) 23:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Currently the article includes a quote from a school superintendent claiming that Hornstine's father said "he was going to manipulate rules designed to protect disabled students for the purpose of allowing [Blair Hornstine] to win the valedictorian award". This of course is the sort of thing we need to source. The best reference that I found freely available online was http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86469,00.html . I think we can improve the sourcing, however. The Fox News opinion piece begins its mention of the incident as:

This week, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring Moorestown officials from naming co-valedictorians, reports the Los Angeles Times.

So, the story appeared in the Times the week of May 9th, 2003 (but probably not after the 9th) after the judge issued the restraining order. Looking at the four articles that the Times archive returns as hits for "Hornstine" in the whole of 2003, one would probably be eliminated by appearing two days after the Fox News piece. Of the three others, all fall within the correct week; only one of the three, however, mentions in its title and preview the judge's order. So, the article we're looking for appears to be:

The Nation

Top Student Wins Temporary Ban on Split Honor

Judge bars a New Jersey school from naming more than one class of 2003 valedictorian.

John J. Goldman; Los Angeles Times; May 9, 2003; A.41

Hopefully someone either has a subscription to the Times archive or has access to a library with this volume in its holdings. -- Antaeus Feldspar 22:11, 19 January 2007 (UTC)