I fail to see how your own speculation or opinion have any bearing on the relivance of this statement. It's a sourced statement. Did it really happen the way it said in the book? what qualification do any of us have to question that? Right now we have information from a book versus your thoughts. I don't see a conflict. I continualy see an arguement from this stand point: I don't think it is absolutly crucial to have this info on this article so it has to be deleted. Since Jimbo Wales has said that he invisions wikipedia as a place where the sum of all human knowledge can be found I would say: When in doubt, leave the info.