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

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Also, some of those media references may be obituaries,
>> which are a
>> different sort of source to news articles.
>
> While Lessing was born in 1919, last time I looked she was still alive. ;)

Oops! :-)

> Tough old bird.

Indeed.

> Our article talks about her dalliances with communism, feminism, and sufism,
> and tells us that she was out shopping for groceries when the announcement
> of the Nobel Prize win came, but it tells us next to nothing about what she
> won the prize for.

Human interest rather than encyclopedic?

Carcharoth