Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/People speculated to have been autistic
but remove the large amount of dubious and badly-sourced material in it, and in future apply  and  punctiliously and ''promptly'' move unsourced items to the Talk page. There's nothing wrong with reporting well-sourced opinions, and there is some point in localizing this material in a single article than rather than having individual discussions biographies. But. This is a page where the |verifiability policy needs to be applied punctiliously. I notice that a number of seemingly sourced items have pretty unsatisfactory sources; for example, Alan Turing is referenced to a page on a ''medium''-credible website&mdash;it's about "sexual health" and the source is an RN with an autistic child, who in turn, cites "Tony Attwood 2000" but does not actually give a reference. Attwood in turn is quoted rather vaguely as saying "Examples of possible 'Asperger's Achievers' are Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Mozart, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Glenn Gould and Alan Turing ... such illustrious individuals could be valuable heroes to children with Asperger's Syndrome." I don't think that's good enough, '''particularly''' since the statement suggests Attwood is motivated by a wish to provide "heroes" to children with Asperger's, rather than a desire for encyclopedic accuracy
— User:Dpbsmith, 14:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:CITE||WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability)