[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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