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

[James Farrar]

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.

The BBC's such department, legend has it, is known within the
Corporation as "the Department of Stiffs"...