On 7 April 2010 07:36, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
We've been mentioned in issue 1259 of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye [[Lord_Gnome]] has included
us in page 6's Street of Shame, because this edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mephedrone&diff=prev&oldi…
lead to the rest of [[Fleet Street]] calling [[Mephedrone]] Miaow.
The Eye also made the point that if the drug had come to Public
attention a little earlier it would have been called "The Chinese"
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mephedrone&diff=next&oldi…
or a little later "Mugabe".
This has lead to a discussion at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mephedrone#Meow_meow
And raises the question as to whether this redirect
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miaow_miaow&action=history
is self referential.
The Signpost is already ahead of you :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-04-05/In_the…
"However, research by Wikipedians found that the crucial unsourced
street names passage which included "meow" was removed on 17 November,
some days before the UK press ran a number of mephedrone stories using
the doubled term "meow meow". (...) An earlier story in the Irish
edition of the Daily Mirror, on 15 September, had already given "meow"
as the street name,[4] some time before it was added to the Wikipedia
entry on 2 November."
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk