2009/10/7 Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Wylie
My source for the death is a tweet.
It is a tweet from the official Bletchley Park feed, so I think it's reliable enough ... but I've asked them for more, and a photo if they can :-)
Remember: "reliable sources" is a guideline and requires the application of good sense.
- d.
Here's what I wonder: how do we apply WP:V to *tweets* in a few decades?
-- gwern
I doubt the fad will last that long and anything significant will have been dealt with through other sources. I suspect the challenge in a few decades will be sources that change a fair bit and don't publicly change log to to the extent wikipedia does.
Cite:Interactive media has the potential to be interesting
Legally speaking citing stuff that is protected by defunct DRM may be a future problem.
For the rather longer term citing interplanetary sources is going to be one of the problems an interplanetary wikipedia would face.