[WikiEN-l] Independent article

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 18:36:54 UTC 2007


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?

Hmm. The alternative word would be "stated". Reported makes it sound a
bit less bad, at least to my ears...

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