http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19527797
Was anyone approached to give the other side of the story? The article lacks any explanation of our policy on reliable sources. It sounds like our policy was followed correctly - the author's statement was accepted as reliable only one it was published - but the BBC don't seem to have asked what the policy is.
Hii All,
I read the letter by author Philip Roth about *Reliable Sources* on Wikipedia and his unrest about the article on his book* 'The Human Stain' *a while ago and just saw this discussion initiated here. Here's the Open letter written by Roth : http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-wikipe...
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19527797
Was anyone approached to give the other side of the story? The article lacks any explanation of our policy on reliable sources. It sounds like our policy was followed correctly - the author's statement was accepted as reliable only one it was published - but the BBC don't seem to have asked what the policy is.
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On 8 September 2012 17:28, Nikita Belavate nsbelavate@gmail.com wrote:
Hii All,
I read the letter by author Philip Roth about *Reliable Sources* on Wikipedia and his unrest about the article on his book* 'The Human Stain' *a while ago and just saw this discussion initiated here. Here's the Open letter written by Roth : http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-wikipe...
There is the usual type of internal debate going on about this. As far as
I can understand the actual crux, Roth has a point to the extent that an OTRS mail (I guess - he says letter) talked about "secondary sources" when in this case WP:SELFSOURCEhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SELFSOURCE applies, clearly enough.
Charles
They misrepresent the role of admins, too, which is to enact the will of the community.
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