[WikiEN-l] Otto Middleton (a morality tale)

[David Gerard]

On 10 May 2011 17:04, Scott MacDonald <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I've written a little essay which I think serves to illustrate the dangers
> of Wikipedia's tendency to create articles (and particularly BLPs) from a
> pastiche of newspaper articles.
> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Otto_Middleton_%28or_why_newspapers_a
> re_dubious_sources%29
> It may amuse (or it may not)


Yep. Anyone who calls a newspaper a "reliable source" in terms other
than comparison to even worse sources has clearly never been written
about by one.

Suggestion: move the explanatory box to the top.


- d.