Very interesting! Thank you for sharing!

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 1:54 PM Avery Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you for your own fact-checking.  Not all of those publications are
> considered "reliable sources" by Wikipedia.  It will be interesting to see
> if any of them prints a retraction, or if this gets added to her article as
> a "controversy".
>
> For anyone who is interested, the Wikipedia policy on biographies of living
> persons does have a section on "Dealing with articles about yourself
> <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Dealing_with_articles_about_yourself
> >
> ".
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Dealing_with_articles_about_yourself
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:08 PM Alexandre Hocquet <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Dear Education listers,
> >
> > As a historian of science in higher education, I have been developping a
> > course focusing on Wikipedia in recent years, and some may have heard of
> > the WikiMOOC I presented at Wikimania MOntreal (though I only played a
> > modest role in the WikiMOOC saga)
> >
> > My course is pedagocally relying on anecdotes that say much about
> > Wikipedia principles, Wikipedia comunity and how Wikipedia is regarded.
> >
> > I am today very happy that my first anecdote in English has been
> > published. It's about OLivia Colman's birthdate and how the press likes
> > to ridicule Wikipedia, yet fact checking is actually done by Wikipedians
> > instead of journalists, so I can't resist to self promote it here:
> >
> >
> >
> https://theconversation.com/no-wikipedia-didnt-get-actress-olivia-colmans-birthdate-wrong-111848
> >
> > Comments welcome
> > --
> > ***********************************************
> > Alexandre Hocquet
> >
> > Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré
> > [email protected]
> > http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
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