[WikiEN-l] Encyclopedia or Gossip Rag

[Thomas Dalton]

On Oct 7, 2012 2:44 PM, "Marc Riddell" <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I came across this today in the English Wikipedia:
>
> "In 2011, it has been reported that [the subject] has been caught cheating
> on his wife with a 30 year old intern turned reporter."
>
> Is this worthy of a credible Encyclopedia or, if it needs reported at all,
> in a gossip tabloid rag?

I'd prefer it if we didn't make that kind of decision ourselves. Has it
been reported in mainstream (non-gossip) media? (We have to make a
judgement about whether a particular source is respectable or not, but
that's better than making judgements on individual facts.)