Steve Bennett wrote:
On 1/18/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I actually spoke at some length about this with the person who called me - death notices often do in fact show up on Wikipedia before almost anywhere, e.g. the death of [[Andrea Dworkin]], where it went straight from a feminist mailing list to her article and only hit the media during the following day. Being *current* is one of our really strong suits, and the readers know this.
Ok, so what do we do when mostly we're right, we're occasionally laughably (or harmfully?) wrong, and we don't seem to have much control either way? Tough to implement any policies telling vandals how to behave when they're up to no good...
While vandals are a fact of life, I think that the discussion is best furthered by assuming that the editors involved in a current events article are acting in good faith.. In the rush to get things done errors will crop up, but we are in a better position to openly admit an error. We can go on with the correction much faster than the more traditional media. .An ongoing event warning remains important.
Ec