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

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 21:18:21 UTC 2007


On 06/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> No-one is saying we shouldn't try. I'm just saying it's important to
> accept that we will fail, and when we do, we need to do as little harm
> as possible. We do that by erring on the side of sympathy (that is,
> pretty much, what BLP says).


mmm. Mind you, far too many of our  pop culture articles go too far
the other way. (Because fans police them, and because only fans care
enough to.)


- d.



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