[WikiEN-l] LA Times reporter interviewing users

[John Vandenberg]

On 2/13/07, 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.

One recent death that is still quite difficult to find online news of
is [[Gareth Roberts (scientist)]].  User 163.1.7.205 (mostly a SPA)
updated the article on 15:37, 6 February 2007, and I added a source at
16:00, 6 February 2007.

--
John