The Picard bio is almost to consensus now.
There remains just two corrections.
One is the
correction that I had previously suggested in these pages.
As I recall
User:PlatanusOccidentalis tried to make that edit and was reverted and rebuffed. Moreover, I now discover via his
talk page that he is not a stranger to me, after all. This drama is like
Great Expectations, a Dickensian novel in which young and old characters are more deeply related than is at first apparent.
As to the final improvement to the bio, in the wake of the major rewrite by Ottava Rima, I don't have the details.
Last night the Picards invited me to dinner, and I finally had a chance to talk to Roz (who had been in London at an Autism conference all last week). I asked her if she had yet had a chance to look at the biography since the last major round of edits. She said she had taken a quick look and that there were a few small things to fix, but she hadn't had time to send a note to Kim Bruning detailing them.
And so I spent another delightful evening with Roz and Len Picard and their remarkably bright and energetic children whom I dearly love to romp with.