[WikiEN-l] oopsie-- mainstream journalists trust Wikipedia again

[geni]

On 05/10/2007, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> I once talked to a librarian at a major news organization here in the U.S.;
> one of the most interesting things I learned was that a big part of her job
> was doing biographical research on older famous people considered "likely to
> die soon" -- so that when they actually did bite the dust, there would have
> a nice obit ready to go. Apparently most news organizations do this.
> Wikipedia, on the other hand, just scrambles to catch up :)
>
> -- phoebe


Depends. While yes rumor has it that the BBC where running rehearsals
for dealing with the queen mother's death every 6 months for the last
few years of her life. You can only really have the ready to go oblits
for the very top level of people. The ones you are certain you are
going to cover.  In the case of Ronnie Hazlehurst it is pretty clear
people didn't and it would only have taken a couple of slightly more
famous people to die that day to removed the coverage of his death.

-- 
geni