On 3/29/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Fanning
This article said that "She is the sister of [[Powderfinger]] frontman and solo artist, [[Bernard Fanning]]."
Not true.
She asked me about this on television. I danced around it as best I could, but basically it was not fun. :(
Fortunately, this bit of incorrect information was not negative. But it made it hard for me to make a positive image for us.
I edited out the bad bit, but I left in the previous line:
"Ellen Fanning is married and has two young sons."
There is no source. Is it even true? Well, I asked her, and it is true. But there is no source.
I hope the horse I am beating is still alive: we have to be absolutely ruthless about removing "I think I heard it somewhere" pseudo-information from Wikipedia, and especially from biographies.
People who are fighting the good fight here are sometimes threatened with a trip to ArbCom. They need our support, though.
--Jimbo
It would help if we could get people to agree that subjects themselves are suitable sources for non-controversial bio information.
Mgm