Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia the first draft of history - New York Times take on Joe Wilson article

That's funny your link got it's final character cut off in my email box so it didn't work. Testing whether this link will work... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_%28U.S._politician%29 -----Original Message----- From: Keith Old To: English Wikipedia Sent: Thu, Sep 10, 2009 1:38 pm Subject: [WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia the first draft of history - New York Times take on Joe Wilson article Folks, The New York Times reports: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/the-wikipedia-battle-over-joe-wils… If journalism is the first draft of history, what is a Wikipedia entry when it is updated within minutes of an event to reflect changes in a person’s biography? This is the very live issue that cropped up in a heated argument on the discussion page that accompanies Wikipedia’s entry on Representative Joe Wilson Wednesday night, just 30 minutes after the Republican from South Carolina interrupted President Barack Obama’s speech by shouting “You lie!” As my colleague Carl Hulse reported in a blog post published about 10 minutes after the fight got going on Wikipedia, Mr. Wilson’s outburst came in response to the president’s statement that his proposed changes to health insurance laws would not give coverage to illegal immigrants. Since Mr. Wilson’s shout was made during a live television broadcast — nowarchived on YouTube by The Associated Press — in front of all of his colleagues, the fact that it happened is not in dispute. Afte r Wikipedia’s editors initially removed the first reference to the event from the entry on Mr. Wilson, citing concerns about sourcing and potential “vandalism,” the page was locked to prevent new or unregistered users from editing it. That is when the argument among Wikipedians — which can be read in full on the discussion page starting here — really took off. (More in article) The Joe Wilson article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_(U.S._politician)<http://en.wiki… Regards *Keith Old* _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l