[WikiEN-l] WP:V strikes again!

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Wed May 13 15:41:36 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure this poem can be taken as a reliable source that he is
> 58, but it most certainly can't be taken as any kind of source that he
> is 40. It is quite clear that the poem isn't intended to be taken
> seriously.
>

I was very tempted to edit the Frazier article to change his birthyear
with this poem as a source, just to see whether the editors of that
article are mindless WP:V/RS drones. But then I realized that, as
salutary an example as that might be, it would be climbing a pointy
government building.

-- 
gwern



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