On 10 May 2011 17:04, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
I've written a little essay which I think serves to illustrate the dangers of Wikipedia's tendency to create articles (and particularly BLPs) from a pastiche of newspaper articles. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Otto_Middleton_%28or_why_newspapers_a re_dubious_sources%29 It may amuse (or it may not)
Yep. Anyone who calls a newspaper a "reliable source" in terms other than comparison to even worse sources has clearly never been written about by one.
Suggestion: move the explanatory box to the top.
- d.