[WikiEN-l] "Wicked-pedia"in today's Daily Mail

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gary Kirk [mailto:gary.kirk at gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 01:25 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] "Wicked-pedia" in today's Daily Mail
>
>So really, why write a story about it in <s>newspaper</s> the Daily
>Mail? A friend vandalises my userpage. Do I use this as a stage to
>attack him? No. I move on.
>
>And Jerry Sanger, I ask you... ;-)
>
>On 23/04/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/23/07, Mak <makwik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Here's the url
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=450045&in_page_id=1770
>> >
>>
>> Quite a well written, amusing little piece, not at all the hack job
>> I'd been led to expect.  Petronella Wyatt was apparently vandalised by
>> the insertion of all kinds of lurid allegations. She complained and
>> apparently it was fixed.  She thinks she knows who did it.

>-- 
>Gary Kirk

What caused this is writing an article about someone who is not notable enough that the article would be read or watched. If it were not autobiographical, at least the creator of the article might have it on their watchlist. But as it is, who knew or cared? Our process depends on articles getting enough attention that errors are noticed.

Fred