[WikiEN-l] Independent article

[David Gerard]

On 17/01/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/17/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Fans of the Wet Wet Wet frontman Marti Pellow were left stunned yesterday
> > after the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reported that he had died last

> The word "reported" is very telling of how we are still misperceived.
> We're not a news site. Why do people think we are?


I actually spoke at some length about this with the person who called
me - death notices often do in fact show up on Wikipedia before almost
anywhere, e.g. the death of [[Andrea Dworkin]], where it went straight
from a feminist mailing list to her article and only hit the media
during the following day. Being *current* is one of our really strong
suits, and the readers know this.


- d.