[WikiEN-l] Oh well, so much for BLP

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Mon May 14 16:39:30 UTC 2007


On 14/05/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_the_future.html
>
> "... and explain why, sooner or later, everyone in this room is going
> to end up in Wikipedia."

To be fair, that's meant more as "Wikipedia or its third-generation
bastard godchild which we dare not even envisage", rather than a
specific assumption about the project...

(But, even so, imagine what happens to verifiability and sourcing if
everyone's life is published in the primary source, then annotated by
third parties? Eww.)

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



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