[WikiEN-l] Independent article

[Steve Bennett]

On 1/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ok, so what do we do when mostly we're right, we're occasionally
laughably (or harmfully?) wrong, and we don't seem to have much
control either way? Tough to implement any policies telling vandals
how to behave when they're up to no good...

Steve