We've been mentioned in issue 1259 of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye [[Lord_Gnome]] has included us in page 6's Street of Shame, because this edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mephedrone&diff=prev&oldid... lead to the rest of [[Fleet Street]] calling [[Mephedrone]] Miaow. The Eye also made the point that if the drug had come to Public attention a little earlier it would have been called "The Chinese" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mephedrone&diff=next&oldid... or a little later "Mugabe".
This has lead to a discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mephedrone#Meow_meow
And raises the question as to whether this redirect http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miaow_miaow&action=history is self referential.
Of course if the edit was legit we need to inform the Eye.
WereSpielChequers
On 7 April 2010 07:36, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@googlemail.com wrote:
We've been mentioned in issue 1259 of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye [[Lord_Gnome]] has included us in page 6's Street of Shame, because this edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mephedrone&diff=prev&oldid... lead to the rest of [[Fleet Street]] calling [[Mephedrone]] Miaow. The Eye also made the point that if the drug had come to Public attention a little earlier it would have been called "The Chinese" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mephedrone&diff=next&oldid... or a little later "Mugabe".
This has lead to a discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mephedrone#Meow_meow
And raises the question as to whether this redirect http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miaow_miaow&action=history is self referential.
The Signpost is already ahead of you :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-04-05/In_the_...
"However, research by Wikipedians found that the crucial unsourced street names passage which included "meow" was removed on 17 November, some days before the UK press ran a number of mephedrone stories using the doubled term "meow meow". (...) An earlier story in the Irish edition of the Daily Mirror, on 15 September, had already given "meow" as the street name,[4] some time before it was added to the Wikipedia entry on 2 November."