[WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

[wjhonson at aol.com]

Investigative Journalism should go to WikiNews.
BTW does Wikinews have any traction yet?
I mean does it hit the first googly page ?


-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
To: fredbaud at fairpoint.net; English Wikipedia 
<wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 12:24 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT 
reporter in Afghanistan










2009/9/9 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:

> Actually, no, that is a throw-away. But we do need to get a little
> smarter. We might have something come up that is a bit more serious.


I think there's actually not much we need to do. The most recent case
was entirely covered by BLP: be extremely conservative about
potentially extremely harmful information.

We're an encyclopedia, not investigative journalism - we have wikinews
for that. If we wait a few days until we're absolutely sure and there
are really good and reliable sources, that's fine. Once it's all over
the media, it's not our problem; when it isn't, it shouldn't be in the
article.

People shouting "censorship!" have mistaken the encyclopedia for a
venue for investigative journalism.


- d.

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