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 ::::::::I don't know and I don't see how that is relevant given that the inclusion rules clearly permit it. Every biography is different but they are all built using the same basic set of rules no matter whether the person is a painter, a politician or anyone else talking about their work and views. If it informs the reader about the subject of the biography and the information has been selected by secondary RS it can, in principal, be included. The relevance to the synth discussion is to show that that there is, in my view, a basic flaw, an inconsistency, in the argument. If 10 things each individually qualify for inclusion then the notion that a single simple meta statement about them is synth and requires another source to demonstrate the importance of the 10 things is illogical. Let me ask you this via a reductio ad absurdum. The article includes the 2 books written by Levy. If I were to add a statement that said ""Levy has written 2 books"" somewhere in the article would you argue that it is synth, that I need a source that says ""Levy has written 2 books"" to avoid synth and to demonstrate that the easily verifiable fact that Levy has written 2 books is important enough to mention ? What if those 2 books were serialized and only published in the NYT ? Do the rules change if things are in the NYT ? ' - '   
 
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