Call from a local paper, the Tameside Reporter, about edits to an article about a local council member and about a motorway bypass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Oldham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longdendale_Bypass The article about the councillor has been locked (by Doc glasgow) since late April. The bypass article is being heavily edited. Key soundbites: * It's an encyclopedia, not investigative journalism. * With biographies of living people, we have to really consider what's important to put in them. We don't want a hatchet job or just praise. If they died tomorrow, what would be important enough to put in their biography? That sort of thing. * Living biographies are about 90% of our biographies, which are 35% of the one and a half milliion articles." (Numbers from a quick count by Danny a while ago; may be completely wrong now.) * Contentious current issues are difficult. We don't want to be an activist platform or an anti-activist platform. * It's a live working draft of an encyclopedia, not so much a finished product. Always check the history tab when looking at an article. So if we ever see the article, I've given him lots to go on :-) Does anyone on this list live in the area, and would you be able to get hold of a copy? Should be appearing soonish. - d. <<<<<<<< I saw this post this evening in archives. The whole thing was a crazy idea from some kid and he really had me convinced for a few hours that it was real. (Two other articles have since been deleted relating to this nonsense). The Tameside Reporters article is still online, but doesn't seem to be indexed by google http://www.tamesidereporter.com/fullstory.php?ID297 CYBERSPACE OF WORDS The Tameside Observer (Guardian Media Grp) is the pay for newspaper in the area, the reporter being an old family concern. I doubt you'd find a copy the newspaper lads dump them on the wasteland thats gonna be a bypass. or something like that. mike