On 10 May 2011 17:04, Scott MacDonald <doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
I've written a little essay which I think serves
to illustrate the dangers
of Wikipedia's tendency to create articles (and particularly BLPs) from a
pastiche of newspaper articles.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Otto_Middleton_%28or_why_newspapers_a
re_dubious_sources%29
It may amuse (or it may not)
Yep. Anyone who calls a newspaper a "reliable source" in terms other
than comparison to even worse sources has clearly never been written
about by one.
Suggestion: move the explanatory box to the top.
- d.