[WikiEN-l] Now we're ready for prime time...
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Fri Feb 23 02:40:28 UTC 2007
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
>Wikipedia isn't "Not Ready for Prime Time" any more... we were
>recently mentioned in a U.S. prime time broadcast network television
>program. At the end of this past Sunday's episode of "American Dad",
>which concerned exposing a historical conspiracy, a character asks
>the rhetorical question of where he can publish his expose of the
>"true facts" he has uncovered so that people will believe it in
>absence of actual proof... then answers it by creating an article on
>Wikipedia. (This actually violates several policies, including No
>Original Research and Verifiability / References.)
>
I prefer not to believe everything I hear on an American sitcoms.
Writers of fiction in particular can be allowed certain licence on the
road to making their stories work.
Ec
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