Very interesting! Thank you for sharing!
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 1:54 PM Avery Jensen <averydjensen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for your own fact-checking. Not all of
those publications are
considered "reliable sources" by Wikipedia. It will be interesting to see
if any of them prints a retraction, or if this gets added to her article as
a "controversy".
For anyone who is interested, the Wikipedia policy on biographies of living
persons does have a section on "Dealing with articles about yourself
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Deali…
".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Deali…
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:08 PM Alexandre Hocquet <
alexandre.hocquet(a)univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
> Dear Education listers,
> As a historian of science in higher
education, I have been developping a
> course focusing on Wikipedia in recent years, and some may have heard of
> the WikiMOOC I presented at Wikimania MOntreal (though I only played a
> modest role in the WikiMOOC saga)
> My course is pedagocally relying on
anecdotes that say much about
> Wikipedia principles, Wikipedia comunity and how Wikipedia is regarded.
> I am today very happy that my first
anecdote in English has been
> published. It's about OLivia Colman's birthdate and how the press likes
> to ridicule Wikipedia, yet fact checking is actually done by Wikipedians
> instead of journalists, so I can't resist to self promote it here:
https://theconversation.com/no-wikipedia-didnt-get-actress-olivia-colmans-b…
> Comments welcome
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