[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Bryan Derksen]

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> geni wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28news%29#Robert_Mugabe.27s_daughter_-_news_story_originating_from_Wikipedia.3F
> 
> So that's the best example I have seen in a while.

I don't see it as a good example, myself. The edit in question was
referenced with an appropriate and well-formatted external source, so a
policy of "instantly nuke any unsourced statements" would have failed to
catch this. It would instead be covered by a "nuke any statements that
the cited sources reveal to be false" policy, which I'm pretty sure we
already have in spirit even if not in letter.

James Duddridge could have checked the source that was right there in
the article, I have no idea why he felt the need to ask Ian McCartney
for confirmation instead.