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Hoax article on India-Portugal clash fools Wikipedia for 5 years

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Re: Hoax article on India-Portugal clash fools Wikipedia for 5 years

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Post by ollysb »

sageikosa wrote: post #39
ollysb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps it would be a good idea for disputes to be recorded with the wikipedia article i.e. in your case their would be a dispute registered in the foot notes over the birth date of Alicia Keys(with a link to the alternative put forward). This would allow others to investigate further if need be, adding any new information to the dispute as and when found.

Even the dispute footnotes would be disputed, and where would those go?

I was thinking there would be a discussion thread for each dispute.

Re: Hoax article on India-Portugal clash fools Wikipedia for 5 years

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Post by greenyoda »

bdunbar wrote: post #40
greenyoda wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Anything that appears in WP should be traceable to multiple reliable printed sources." However, even "professional" journalists have become so sloppy these days that it's likely that the printed source used Wikipedia as the basis for its information.

> even "professional" journalists have become so sloppy these days This is not a new thing - journalists have been sloppy with facts for a long time. It is simply more noticeable now, with multiple sources of information.

I think it's gotten worse with the coming of the web. When newspapers were printed once a day, they had a few hours to check facts and edit before press time. Now that a newspaper is expected to have a story published on the web minutes after it happens, there's much less time to do this. The newspapers have become much more like TV news.
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