[WikiEN-l] Tabloid sources (was Wikipedia leadership})

[Carcharoth]

You need to put that in context. Namely, is The Sun used in non-BLP
articles as well? And the real question is how much do BLPs rely on
newspaper sources in general, as opposed to (say) references to
published biographies?

Carcharoth

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:50 PM, wiki <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=t
> hesun.co.uk+%22Living+people%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&title=Special%3ASearch
> &advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced+search
>
> 'Nuff said.
>
> Scott
>
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> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Tabloid sources (was Wikipedia leadership})
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> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> For better or worse, Wikipedia in its present state is more of a news
>> aggregator than an educational resource, and the reason is that the
>> community likes it that way.
>
> Parts of Wikipedia are more like a news aggregator, yes. Other parts
> are clearly not. Most obviously the stuff that newspapers don't cover,
> or where other sources exist. Has anyone tried to do one of those
> network diagrams showing correlations between types of articles and
> particular types of sources? Some interesting patterns might emerge
> there.
>
> Carcharoth
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