[WikiEN-l] "Wicked-pedia"in today's Daily Mail

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 4/23/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Gary Kirk [mailto:gary.kirk at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 01:25 PM
> >To: 'English Wikipedia'
> >Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] "Wicked-pedia" in today's Daily Mail
> >
> >So really, why write a story about it in <s>newspaper</s> the Daily
> >Mail? A friend vandalises my userpage. Do I use this as a stage to
> >attack him? No. I move on.
> >
> >And Jerry Sanger, I ask you... ;-)
> >
> >On 23/04/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 4/23/07, Mak <makwik at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Here's the url
> >>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=450045&in_page_id=1770
> >> >
> >>
> >> Quite a well written, amusing little piece, not at all the hack job
> >> I'd been led to expect.  Petronella Wyatt was apparently vandalised by
> >> the insertion of all kinds of lurid allegations. She complained and
> >> apparently it was fixed.  She thinks she knows who did it.
>
> >--
> >Gary Kirk
>
> What caused this is writing an article about someone who is not notable
> enough that the article would be read or watched. If it were not
> autobiographical, at least the creator of the article might have it on their
> watchlist. But as it is, who knew or cared? Our process depends on articles
> getting enough attention that errors are noticed.
>
> Fred


How much an article is watched is not necessarily related to how notable it
is. That said, it may be a relevant part of this case, but I haven't checked
the article yet, so I couldn't tell if  it was the case.

Mgm