Re: [WikiEN-l] Otto Middleton (a morality tale) - WikiEN-l

10 May 2011

On 10 May 2011 17:04, Scott MacDonald &lt;doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com&gt; wrote:

...
  I've written a little essay which I think serves
to illustrate the dangers
 of Wikipedia's tendency to create articles (and particularly BLPs) from a
 pastiche of newspaper articles.
 See
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Otto_Middleton_%28or_why_newspapers_a
 re_dubious_sources%29
 It may amuse (or it may not) 

Yep. Anyone who calls a newspaper a "reliable source" in terms other
than comparison to even worse sources has clearly never been written
about by one.

Suggestion: move the explanatory box to the top.

- d.