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post Thu 27th March 2008, 12:17am
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1">Wikipedia's school for scandal has plenty more secrets to reveal
Guardian, UK -7 minutes ago
Sex, money and Wikipedia have combined in recent weeks for a series of scandals. It began as cofounder Jimmy Wales and conservative pundit Rachel Marsden ...

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post Thu 27th March 2008, 12:28am
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There you have it...

Sex, power, and money.

Now do you believe me?
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post Thu 27th March 2008, 12:33am
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QUOTE(Moulton @ Thu 27th March 2008, 12:28am) *

There you have it...

Sex, power, and money.

Now do you believe me?


Is the Grauniad a reliable source? blink.gif

Serious point though: we are starting to see "Wikipedia is broken" as a given in the mainstream press. That is healthy as one day, Wikipediots might finally realise it is not just some attack site, (aka The Register? Surely some mistake), but A Problem Anyone Can Understand.
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post Thu 27th March 2008, 11:49am
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It is a myth that the established newspapers are always accepted as reliable. If it disagrees with what the cabal think ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=128107568

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=128252244
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post Thu 27th March 2008, 12:41pm
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Relying on a single bylined article in just one newspaper, or a single ill-chosen adjective in a single story in just one newspaper (even if it's the NY Times) is not a reasonable basis for elevating that author or headline writer's interpretation to the status of fact for the purpose of crafting encylopedic BLPs.
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post Thu 27th March 2008, 4:18pm
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QUOTE(guy @ Thu 27th March 2008, 11:49am) *

It is a myth that the established newspapers are always accepted as reliable. If it disagrees with what the cabal think ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=128107568

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=128252244


I will state for the record - without commenting on the specific incident - that the "verification needed" template is (supposed to be) not a claim about the reliability of the source itself, but instead is an expression of doubt that the source actually says what the article claims it says.
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post Thu 27th March 2008, 5:33pm
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I will state for the record - without commenting on the specific incident - that the "verification needed" template is (supposed to be) not a claim about the reliability of the source itself, but instead is an expression of doubt that the source actually says what the article claims it says.

Thanks for that. In this case, there is no doubt that the source actually says what the article claims it says, but I won't hijack the thread.
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post Thu 27th March 2008, 11:15pm
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In the case I have in mind, the newspaper story actually quoted the subjects of several BLPs as vigorously disagreeing with the POV in the newspaper headline. Nonetheless, the POV-pushing editors on WP insisted on labeling those BLP subjects as agreeing with the POV of the headline.
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