[WikiEN-l] Using social networking sites as sources

[Jimmy Wales]

Certainly my date of birth is wrong all over the net because I entered 
it wrong on a social networking site years ago.  Such sources should be 
treated with EXTREME skepticism on ALL details.

Andrew Gray wrote:
> This may be of interest to some people, given our occasional habit of
> fleshing out articles by raiding the personal sites of subjects:
> 
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003211808_fancher20.html
> 
> It's a brief report of a discussion at the Seattle Times about the
> reliability and ethical appropriateness of using (say) the Myspace
> page of a murder victim in reporting on them. Not much content, but
> it's good to see people are asking themselves these questions.
>