The newspaper articles are already permanently searchable and point directly at the Wikipedia article. This message doesn't make anything "worse" than it is already.
I'm going to be transcribing all the newspaper articles, but it will take a bit of time.
I was a bit surprised that they actually published the exact address of the house. But hey, we are journalists, we're not here to be a moral filter for what anyone else did in the past.
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
I was a bit surprised that they actually published the exact address of the house. But hey, we are journalists, we're not here to be a moral filter for what anyone else did in the past.
On Wikipedia, we are NOT journalists. Wikinews is that way ===>
And we are certainly not bound to include every detail of something that can be verified. I'm not sure what useful purpose naming her brother serves, nor forum shopping this here.
-Matt
for this particular article, the extreme advisability of discreteness will I hope be obvious to anyone who actually reads it through. This is a person who wants, needs, and deserves privacy--all three to a degree rarely seen in these discussions. I am no supporter of the Wikipedia interpretation of DO NO HARM as a general rule, but it does apply in exceptional cases.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
I was a bit surprised that they actually published the exact address of the house. But hey, we are journalists, we're not here to be a moral filter for what anyone else did in the past.
On Wikipedia, we are NOT journalists. Wikinews is that way ===>
And we are certainly not bound to include every detail of something that can be verified. I'm not sure what useful purpose naming her brother serves, nor forum shopping this here.
-Matt
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