[WikiEN-l] Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Reuters

[Mathias Schindler]

While Reuters initially meant to report on [[Kenneth Lay]]'s article
on enwp and the pace of the edits on that page, it gave a nice insight
into the mechanisms of information delivery:

Version 1:

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-07-05T195309Z_01_N05296006_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-ENRON-LAY-WIKIPEDIA.XML
Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia
Wed Jul 5, 2006 8:53 PM BST167

Lay, 64, died of a heart attack early on Wednesday, a family
spokeswoman said, just six weeks after a jury found him guilty of
fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history.

Version 2:
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-07-06T031803Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-258341-2.xml
CORRECTED - Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia
Thu Jul 6, 2006 3:25 AM IST166

Lay, 64, died of an apparent heart attack, according to a pastor at
the Lay family's church in Houston. It was six weeks after a jury
found him guilty of fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in
U.S. history. A family spokeswoman said that Lay passed away early on
Wednesday morning in Aspen.



Version 2 contains a "sorry, we failed to make factchecking before
sending it to the wires" header:

"(Corrects and recasts paragraph two to show that a spokeswoman for
the Lay family did not give the cause of Lay's death. It was given by
another source.)"