On 1/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I actually spoke at some length about this with the
person who called
me - death notices often do in fact show up on Wikipedia before almost
anywhere, e.g. the death of [[Andrea Dworkin]], where it went straight
from a feminist mailing list to her article and only hit the media
during the following day. Being *current* is one of our really strong
suits, and the readers know this.
Ok, so what do we do when mostly we're right, we're occasionally
laughably (or harmfully?) wrong, and we don't seem to have much
control either way? Tough to implement any policies telling vandals
how to behave when they're up to no good...
Steve