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

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 19:16:57 UTC 2007


On 08/07/07, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew,  a newssource is not "reasonably good" when it sensationalizes minor
> stories and even prints patent falsehoods. I arrived at the conclusion that
> the Register is not a reliable source after not just this awful mess of an
> article, but several others on varied topics. Such as one once used as the
> primary source of info in the FA-class Guinea pig article ...

Um. I think this demonstrates the problem. You can be a good source on
some topics and a terrible source on others...

...so why did anyone imagine a site known solely for specialist
technical journalism would be dealing with *guinea pigs* as anything
but "and in amusing filler news..."?

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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