[Wikinews-l] Date-specific vandalism

[James Hare]

My thoughts exactly.

On 1/3/07, Robin Shannon <robin at shannon.id.au> wrote:
>
> On 04/01/07, Benjamin Massey <me at benmassey.ca> wrote:
> > "Date-specific vandalism"? Bit of an inflammatory term, don't you agree?
>
> No.
>
> > At any rate, plenty of well-respected journalistic and news authorities
> > aren't above celebrating April Fool's Day. I don't see why we should
> > hold Wikinews to different standards.
>
> Because others hold wikimedia projects to higher standards than
> traditional media. If the NYT or britanica gets something wrong, then
> that just shows that no one's perfect. If we get something wrong it
> proves that this damned new-fangled wiki stuff shouldn't be trusted.
>
> paz,
> -rjs.
>
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