[WikiEN-l] LA Times reporter interviewing users

[Andrew Gray]

On 12/02/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk at gmail.com> wrote:
> A new Wikipedian (SPA as-yet but meh) who is a reporter has been
> asking users about their experience of updating articles with the
> latest information about subjects, specifically the recent death of
> Anna Nicole Smith and how the article was managed by Wikipedians - the
> usual reverting (WP:BLP, {{fact}}) to vandalism afterwards. Says he
> thinks it would make an interesting article (for his paper :)).
>
> I don't know what the users he's contacted have said, but I thought he
> could be pointed to, for example, WP:BLP and its notice board, and how
> we dealt with [[Kenneth Lay]]'s death, which journalists before I
> recall were impressed with.

Our handling of Andrea Dworkin's death was covered by the Guardian, as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Andrea_Dworkin/Archive1#Death_confirmation
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/04/12/wikipedia_first_with_the_news.html

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