[WikiEN-l] 17,268 badly referenced living biographies

[David Gerard]

On 11/05/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> A: I've heard some newspaper explicitly quoted the connection in an
> interview with David in 2005 (...)
> A: I've gone to the British Library and read the newspaper in
> question. Here is a bit. [quotes]
> B: I've seen that passage quoted on many Internet sites. I want to see
> it reprinted by a reliable source. We need to show that we're using
> the source itself, not some transcription on the internet.
> A: Er, this is quoting from the original. Which I have read. In the
> British Library.
> B: Oh, er.


No, the second quote from B was more like "well, on your own head be
it, if you want to put Wikipedia at risk ..."


- d.