On 28 Jun 2007 at 17:30:57 -0700, Slowking Man slowkingman@gmail.com wrote:
Possibly interesting: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Death_of_Nancy_Benoit_rumour_posted_on_Wikipedia...
Gee... if Lieutenant [[Columbo]] were around, that (the presence of a Wikipedia mention of the death before the body was found) would probably be just the clue he needed to break the case.
On 6/29/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Gee... if Lieutenant [[Columbo]] were around, that (the presence of a Wikipedia mention of the death before the body was found) would probably be just the clue he needed to break the case.
Could just be coincidence. The reference is very vague, and it's from an Australian IP address, of all places.
Steve
CNN is quoting Cary Bass saying that it's a Stamford, CT IP.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/28/wrestler.ap/index.html
----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Bennett To: English Wikipedia Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:48 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Benoit family death rumors
On 6/29/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Gee... if Lieutenant [[Columbo]] were around, that (the presence of a Wikipedia mention of the death before the body was found) would probably be just the clue he needed to break the case.
Could just be coincidence. The reference is very vague, and it's from an Australian IP address, of all places.
Steve
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On 6/29/07, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com wrote:
CNN is quoting Cary Bass saying that it's a Stamford, CT IP.
and of course, wikinews has more about this, including a "confession" from the same IP address.
On the other hand, I notice that we do have a template about a "recently deceased person" in en.wikipedia. Given the circumstances, we might add another template to the arsenal about "a person which is about to die soon". Next time, we should not be unprepared without any templates which fit the edit in question.
Mathias
G'day Steve Bennett,
On 6/29/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Gee... if Lieutenant [[Columbo]] were around, that (the presence of a Wikipedia mention of the death before the body was found) would probably be just the clue he needed to break the case.
Could just be coincidence. The reference is very vague, and it's from an Australian IP address, of all places.
Well, we're hours ahead of everywhere else (New Zealand et al notwithstanding), so it's not surprising we get our news first ...