This may be of interest to some people, given our occasional habit of fleshing out articles by raiding the personal sites of subjects:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003211808_fancher20.html
It's a brief report of a discussion at the Seattle Times about the reliability and ethical appropriateness of using (say) the Myspace page of a murder victim in reporting on them. Not much content, but it's good to see people are asking themselves these questions.
On 8/22/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
This may be of interest to some people, given our occasional habit of fleshing out articles by raiding the personal sites of subjects:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003211808_fancher20.html
It's a brief report of a discussion at the Seattle Times about the reliability and ethical appropriateness of using (say) the Myspace page of a murder victim in reporting on them. Not much content, but it's good to see people are asking themselves these questions.
Interesting both in terms of the tendency to use such sites as sources, and for the brief discussion on the ethics of using certain types of information (even when publicly available) towards the end.
The thirteen questions (questions, not answers) posed there, or some equivalent, should be in the minds of all those working on biographies on Wikipedia, where there is sometimes a tendency to forget that we are writing an encyclopaedia, and not a mere collection of information.
Certainly my date of birth is wrong all over the net because I entered it wrong on a social networking site years ago. Such sources should be treated with EXTREME skepticism on ALL details.
Andrew Gray wrote:
This may be of interest to some people, given our occasional habit of fleshing out articles by raiding the personal sites of subjects:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003211808_fancher20.html
It's a brief report of a discussion at the Seattle Times about the reliability and ethical appropriateness of using (say) the Myspace page of a murder victim in reporting on them. Not much content, but it's good to see people are asking themselves these questions.
Those are just as reliable as forum posts and blogs. Avoid them if you can help it.
Mgm
On 9/28/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Certainly my date of birth is wrong all over the net because I entered it wrong on a social networking site years ago. Such sources should be treated with EXTREME skepticism on ALL details.
Andrew Gray wrote:
This may be of interest to some people, given our occasional habit of fleshing out articles by raiding the personal sites of subjects:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003211808_fancher20.html
It's a brief report of a discussion at the Seattle Times about the reliability and ethical appropriateness of using (say) the Myspace page of a murder victim in reporting on them. Not much content, but it's good to see people are asking themselves these questions.
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