[WikiEN-l] Sourcing "popular culture" items

Fri Nov 10 21:57:07 UTC 2006

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:54:03 -0500, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>
wrote:

>This is someone who *lost* on Philippine Idol, the Philippines version 
>of "Pop Idol" or "American Idol".  The entire bio has no references, the 
>photo is almost certainly a copyvio (I would delete it now, but I want 
>people to take a quick look at it first).  "Greenarcher" claims to have 
>created it, but unless he is the official photographer for the show, 
>this seems quite unlikely.

You don't know how relieved I am to hear that.  Some of the scariest
words I've heard lately from an established editor were "reality
contestants are inherently notable".

Guy (JzG)
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