[WikiEN-l] Sourcing "popular culture" items

[Andrew Gray]

On 11/11/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> What I saw (and Anthony too based on his comments) was indeed the
> current version.  It has essentially been there since Sept. 27.

>From the deletion log:

* 18:45, 9 November 2006 Geni (Talk | contribs | block) restored "Jeli
Mateo" (1 revisions restored: undelete non copyvio material)
* 18:45, 9 November 2006 Geni (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Jeli
Mateo" (g12 much taken from or derived from
http://starmometer.com/2006/09/20/jellica-jelli-marie-mateo-philippine-idol-top-12/)

Those deleted revisions, leaving out the post-Jimbo ones, were:

#  13:38, 1 November 2006 . . 202.81.173.73 (Talk | block)
# 22:37, 17 October 2006 . . Lectricky (Talk | contribs | block) (stub update)
# 12:23, 13 October 2006 . . 125.60.185.149 (Talk | block)
# 08:31, 30 September 2006 . . 210.1.100.114 (Talk | block)
# 15:36, 29 September 2006 . . The Green Archer (Talk | contribs | block)
# 14:49, 29 September 2006 . . 210.1.100.9 (Talk | block)
# 14:32, 29 September 2006 . . 210.1.100.9 (Talk | block)
# 13:38, 29 September 2006 . . 210.1.100.9 (Talk | block)
# 13:34, 29 September 2006 . . 210.1.100.9 (Talk | block)

So, yes, plenty of material was added after the 17th and was posted at
the time of the original message.

>  So when he irresponsibly uses
> data that was deleted more than a month ago as though it were still
> current the results are bound to be chaotic.
>
> Your comments about the former version make a lot of sense, but the fact
> remains that it was already deleted on or before Sept. 27.

...no, the fact remains that it wasn't, it just looks like it was.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk