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I am not a member of your service. I was, however, doing some research and found a rather significant error in one of the entries. Mark Hofmann, the Mormon counterfeiter and murderer, committed his bombings on October 15, 1985 not on November 15, 1985.
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This appears to be correct. A quick five minute search shows a lot of pages mentioning the bombings on Oct 15. Some mention them on both Oct 15 and 16 though.
Here is the BBC mention I found: http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=2341 Under 'The Man Who Forged America'.
I can do the edit later, when I have time, if no one else does it in the meantime.
Richard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:02:44 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I am not a member of your service. I was, however, doing some research and found a rather significant error in one of the entries. Mark Hofmann, the Mormon counterfeiter and murderer, committed his bombings on October 15, 1985 not on November 15, 1985.
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--- Richard Gould rwgould@gmail.com wrote:
This appears to be correct. A quick five minute search shows a lot of pages mentioning the bombings on Oct 15. Some mention them on both Oct 15 and 16 though.
Here is the BBC mention I found: http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=2341 Under 'The Man Who Forged America'.
It looks like somebody fixed it.
Sidenote: This type of error (being exactly a month off) is *very* common in almost all 'this day in history' type websites I've seen. My only explanation for this is that these websites must copy each others information using sloppy rewrites, which introduces errors that propagate and get worse with time - like a big game of telephone.
In fact, most web references I used to update day pages had to be checked very closely (including CNN and the History Channel!) and I usually ended up throwing out a fifth to a third of the entries in each reference due to some type of error, me not being able to confirm a fact, or due to the entry being trivial. This type of checking for *existing* entries in our day pages is now rather difficult due to the fact that so many websites copy us (trying to exclude all websites with the word "Wikipedia" in them does not help much since so many have our reference info in a no-index part of their pages).
-- mav
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