[WikiEN-l] False quote regarding Maurice Jarre

[Charles Matthews]

Sam Korn wrote:
> "The moral of this story is not that journalists should avoid
> Wikipedia, but that they shouldn't use information they find there if
> it can't be traced back to a reliable primary source," said the
> Guardian's readers' editor Siobhain Butterworth.
>
> That's about as good a piece of advice as you'll get on using facts
> from Wikipedia in a journalistic or academic context.
>   
Siobhain Butterworth was in touch with me about this story, and I gave 
her the WP party line (she has the sequence of events slightly wrong, 
but I pointed out that there were three insertions, not just one, and 
twice there was action within a few minutes). I had written to her after 
a related column of hers appeared last November:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/24/leaders-open-door

Charles