On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
Ah, but our verifiability/reliable sources policy says
that we use secondary
sources because they do fact checking. This is a secondary source,
therefore
it must do fact checking. Considering whether the secondary source
*actually* does fact checking is not Wikipedians' job--the policy says it
does, so we have to assume it does!
Actually, I believe People magazine in particular actually does fact
checking. If they aren't good enough, presumably the Independent is -
it is also cited in the article.
But that's neither here nor there. Common sense in this sort of case
is that we should expect celebrities to be constantly managing their
public brand - particularly on a medium such as Twitter which is used
explicitly for that purpose. There's no reason to give much weight to
tweets like the one that is now footnote 1 of the article.
- Carl