[WikiEN-l] The Register decries Wikipedia's "censorship" via OTRS

Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman at spamcop.net
Sun Jul 8 19:12:59 UTC 2007


On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:07:20 -0700, "Steven Walling"
<steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:

>Wikipedians know better to use other tabloids, say like the World Weekly
>News or The National Enquirer, as reliable sources for serious facts about
>events. But the use of this particular rag as "good" verification is still
>in practice. This is unacceptable.

Some of this is the old problem of "always use good sources unless you
can't find any".  Some of it is FUTON bias.  And some of it is plain
old-fashioned foolishness, or perhaps lack of maturity.

Guy (JzG)
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