[WikiEN-l] Delaying News in the Era of the Internet (NYT)

[Oldak Quill]

2008/6/23 Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com>:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23link.html
>
> They actually fired the guy...

From the article:
"In the case of Wikipedia, this is emphatically not what the site was
meant to do. One of the principles of the site is No Original Research
— every fact must have appeared somewhere reputable before it can be
repeated. (This cause can seem an obsession as stickler editors patrol
the site flagging unattributed facts with the label "citation
needed.")"

It's good to see such an important policy described in the NYT.
Especially since it is our primary combat to the "since anyone can
edit, anything could be wrong" critique. Rightly highlighted in a
story in which someone with inside knowledge (and no outside,
independent verification) posts such information to Wikipedia.

-- 
Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)