[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

[geni]

On 4 February 2011 01:32, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> One is expected to use sound editorial judgment. Using British tabloids
> for a biography of a living person falls outside that remit. One is
> expected to have some familiarity with what is an appropriate source for
> the subject.



That requires people be familiar with such things on an international
scale. In practice most such sources will be the result of people
using the first thing that comes up on Google that looks like a news
source (and the daily mail does rank so well these days) rather than
any deliberate attempt to use tabloids as references.

Other than getting a database report to list every link to such a site
within a ref tag there isn't much we can do about it.

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geni