[Wikipedia-l] NYT to forbid use of Wikipedia as a reference?

Thu Dec 8 02:47:44 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>If true, oh crap:
>
>From: [New York Times business editor] Larry Ingrassia 
>To: [Business staff]
>Subject: wiki-whatdia?
>
>Colleagues,
>
>You probably saw Kit Seelye's smart Week-in-Review story about inaccurate information in
>Wikipedia. In case you didn't, please take a look. Since the story ran, she has received a number
>of e-mail messages about other inaccurate information on Wikipedia. We shouldn't be using it to
>check any information that goes into the newspaper.
>
>Larry
>
>From: http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=10748
>
You mean the "Paper of Record" has been using WP to check their
facts? Don't they realize how frequently we use *them* as a
source? Shades of the Cheney/Miller echo chamber, geez...

Stan