See there you go, being all logical.... [😉]
S
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Totally agree Sara! But given that the BBC are running with this as a 'story', it
would be great if we could also educate people a bit about how Wikipedia works ;)
On 15 February 2017 at 13:45, Sara Thomas
<sa.thomas@live.com<mailto:sa.thomas@live.com>> wrote:
"It goes to show, said Hyde, “never trust Wikipedia”."
Eh, naw pal. It goes to show that your security firm need an utter bollocking. (I used
to work in music venue management, for 2 big UK venue groups) People try and fool their
way backstage with all kinds of stuff, and some of it is benign, and some of it is not.
You DO NOT let ANYONE past a backstage security checkpoint without accreditation. This is
basic, basic stuff. If you're not sure, you call your manager, the venue manager or
the tour manager.
Harrumph.
Sara, annoyed, Scotland.
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It's not the first time this kind of thing has happened:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/03/peking-duk-fan-infiltrat…
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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d71a9095a023bdbceef003254d6e7b1317ee0348/0_1…
Peking Duk fan infiltrates backstage by fooling security
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www.theguardian.com<http://www.theguardian.com>
Peking Duk at the Aria awards. Fan David Spargo wrote ‘thanks for the evening lads’ after
fooling a security guard to allow him back stage at their Melbourne show.
and wasn't there another incident like this last year?
(I'm in the wrong hemisphere now to help with this kind of thing in the UK, sorry.)
Thanks,
Mike
On 15 Feb 2017, at 09:25, Lucy Crompton-Reid
<lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk<mailto:lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk>>
wrote:
Dear all
Firstly, many thanks to those of you who have said you would consider responding to
Wikimedia press enquiries in future, and I will be emailing more about that within the
next few days - particularly off the back of the Media Handling and Crisis Communications
course I've been on for the past two days (and no, the irony of the timing wasn't
lost on me).
In the meantime, we've had an enquiry from BBC North West online who are working on a
story about a music fan who apparently secured entry to the VIP area of a gig by editing
the band’s Wikipedia page to claim he was a relative of one of the members. More fool the
bouncers in my opinion but anyway...the BBC has asked "we wanted to check that this
change would have indeed been processed this quickly and without being verified by Wiki
editors? Would Wikipedia be interested in adding a comment about users making edits for
their own means and what the organisation does to tackle this?" Clearly the
journalist in question doesn't understand exactly how editing works and I think it
would be most appropriate to have an editor respond to this, and talk about processes in
place to deal with vandalism.
The article is The
Sherlocks<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sherlocks> and the
edit in question was made on 10th February at 8.28pm and reverted by another editor at
4.15pm the following day.
Would anyone be willing to talk to the BBC about this today? If so, could you let me know
and I'll put you in touch.
Thanks
Lucy
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