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Call from a local paper, the Tameside
Reporter, about edits to an
article about a local council member and about a motorway bypass:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Oldham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longdendale_Bypass
The article about the councillor has been locked (by Doc glasgow)
since late April. The bypass article is being heavily edited.
Key soundbites:
* It's an encyclopedia, not investigative journalism.
* With biographies of living people, we have to really consider what's
important to put in them. We don't want a hatchet job or just praise.
If they died tomorrow, what would be important enough to put in their
biography? That sort of thing.
* Living biographies are about 90% of our biographies, which are 35%
of the one and a half milliion articles." (Numbers from a quick count
by Danny a while ago; may be completely wrong now.)
* Contentious current issues are difficult. We don't want to be an
activist platform or an anti-activist platform.
* It's a live working draft of an encyclopedia, not so much a finished
product. Always check the history tab when looking at an article.
So if we ever see the article, I've given him lots to go on :-)
Does anyone on this list live in the area, and would you be able to
get hold of a copy? Should be appearing soonish.
- d.
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I saw this post this evening in archives. The whole thing was a crazy idea
from some kid and he really had me convinced for a few hours that it was
real. (Two other articles have since been deleted relating to this
nonsense).
The Tameside Reporters article is still online, but doesn't seem to be
indexed by google
http://www.tamesidereporter.com/fullstory.php?ID297 CYBERSPACE OF WORDS
The Tameside Observer (Guardian Media Grp) is the pay for newspaper in the
area, the reporter being an old family concern.
I doubt you'd find a copy the newspaper lads dump them on the wasteland
thats gonna be a bypass. or something like that.
mike