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== Links to documents ==

With all due respect, I don't think it's customary (or desirable) to refer to websites that require a subscription - a PAID subscription in this case - to view ANY relevant document (i.e. cited in the text). 

In this case, the link to the relevant vital record (and ''public'' one, to boot) - namely, MM's birth certificate -  points to a commercial website that won't let so much as take a peek at it without paying through the nose!

This particular document can be seen - free of charge (as is customary for public records of the kind) - on several other websites. They are perhaps less "respectable" (in appearance) but they are accessible to ALL. 

And that, I believe, is precisely the goal of an "webcyclopedia" such as this one: to make knowledge publicly accessible and free of charge.

:I use what I have available.  It would be worse, were I to cite a fact, and no underlying documentary source at all. Some of the sources I cite, I also fully extract, others I do not.[[User:Wjhonson|Wjhonson]] 10:31, 5 December 2007 (PST)

With all due respect, it has also been well documented that Charles Stanley Gifford was the natural father of Marilyn Monroe.

Barbara Monroe is the illegitimate daughter of Marilyn Monroe. (Social Security Documents)

:It is a theory that he is.  Not well documented.  And it's doubtful that there are any credible documents which show a Barbara Monroe as a daughter.[[User:Wjhonson|Wjhonson]] 21:04, 6 March 2008 (PST)