The classic example is when after Beria's fall, they issued a
replacement page for the Great Soviet Encyclopedia carrying a much
expanded article on the Bering Sea, along with instructions on
removing the old page.
A partial solution, as done by PubMed, is for the correction to be as
prominent as the original, for it to be arranged that every search for
the original brings up the correction as well,and for the record of
the original to be marked to show that it has been corrected. Other
search engines could do the same.
On 8/26/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/26/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name>
wrote:
On 26 Aug 2007 at 09:54:09 -0700, William Pietri
<william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
I think this is mainly a historical artifact.
It's only very recently
that articles were even conceivably changeable, and newspapers see
themselves as mainly about the new. What has changed here is that access
to archives is now orders of magnitude easier. What took hours or days
before now takes seconds.
Though, George Orwell anticipated rewritable history when he had the
Party in 1984 go through old newspaper archives and actually reprint
the old issues with articles conforming to today's party line.
--
== Dan ==
Was this anticipation on Orwell's part? Stalin personally ordered my
grandfather disappeared from history archives (grandpa really
personally pissed him off, and it escalated over the years) long
before Orwell wrote the book, which is, after all about Stalin's
Soviet Unioin. And, yes, the Soviets reprinted the old rewritten
newspapers and distributed them to the stacks--not that anybody has
access to them, anyhow.
KP
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