[WikiEN-l] Lord Gnome says Wikipedia said Miaow

[Andrew Gray]

On 7 April 2010 07:36, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> We've been mentioned in issue 1259 of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye   [[Lord_Gnome]] has included
> us in page 6's Street of Shame, because this edit
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mephedrone&diff=prev&oldid=323500567
> lead to the rest of [[Fleet Street]] calling [[Mephedrone]] Miaow.
> The Eye also made the point that if the drug had come to Public
> attention a little earlier it  would have been called "The Chinese"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mephedrone&diff=next&oldid=321796990
> or a little later "Mugabe".
>
> This has lead to a discussion at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mephedrone#Meow_meow
>
> And raises the question as to whether this redirect
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miaow_miaow&action=history
> is self referential.

The Signpost is already ahead of you :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-04-05/In_the_news

"However, research by Wikipedians found that the crucial unsourced
street names passage which included "meow" was removed on 17 November,
some days before the UK press ran a number of mephedrone stories using
the doubled term "meow meow". (...) An earlier story in the Irish
edition of the Daily Mirror, on 15 September, had already given "meow"
as the street name,[4]  some time before it was added to the Wikipedia
entry on 2 November."

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk