[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Stan Shebs]

Nick Wilkins wrote:
> On 3/29/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
>   
>> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>     
>>> I hope the horse I am beating is still alive: we have to be absolutely
>>> ruthless about removing "I think I heard it somewhere"
>>> pseudo-information from Wikipedia, and especially from biographies.
>>>
>>>       
>> About the only way to keep up with the drivel is to insta-revert
>> unsourced stuff. It just takes too long to find a source for somebody
>> else's edit, or ask about each one on a talk page; while you're doing
>> all that, ten other pages are picking up garbage.
>>     
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Fanning&diff=next&oldid=77843853
>
> The statement that she is related to Bernard Fanning was added at the same
> time as two external links.  In this case, insta-reverting unsourced stuff
> wouldn't have done any good.
Heh. In practice though, that's an exceptional case.

Even asking for volunteers to vet a bio ahead of interview isn't going 
to catch everything. (Isn't it interesting how nobody ever complains 
about inaccuracies in articles other than the ones about themselves? 
Egos, geez...) Nope, avoiding interviews is the way to go here. :-)

Stan