[WikiEN-l] oopsie-- mainstream journalists trust Wikipedia again

geni geniice at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 01:00:36 UTC 2007


On 04/10/2007, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/4/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Circular referencing incidents are particularly likely given that
> > obituaries are often the best reference material available for a
> > decent living bio. So this sort of thing is particularly, um,
> > problematic for us.
>
> Living bio?  Surely an obituary will not exist, short of mistake.
>
> -Matt

Some do (the Queen, former Prime Ministers, likely prince Charles) but
anyone significant enough to have one will have had a book written
about them.

-- 
geni



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