http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23link.html
They actually fired the guy...
Looks like this is the diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_Russert&diff=219135167&...
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23link.html
They actually fired the guy...
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2008/6/23 Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23link.html
They actually fired the guy...
From the article: "In the case of Wikipedia, this is emphatically not what the site was meant to do. One of the principles of the site is No Original Research — every fact must have appeared somewhere reputable before it can be repeated. (This cause can seem an obsession as stickler editors patrol the site flagging unattributed facts with the label "citation needed.")"
It's good to see such an important policy described in the NYT. Especially since it is our primary combat to the "since anyone can edit, anything could be wrong" critique. Rightly highlighted in a story in which someone with inside knowledge (and no outside, independent verification) posts such information to Wikipedia.