On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:00 AM, FT2 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:39 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In a message dated 4/22/2009 5:27:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> What do we do about well-sourced information which turns out to be >> incorrect? I don't think policies cover this area particularly well, but >> the >> commonsense view is to word it something along the lines of: >> >> "A national newspaper in 2007 reported that celebrity x had been arrested >> for taking drugs<ref> </ref>; however this was later shown to be untrue >> <ref> </ref>" >> >> If it's not that important you can always include the details in a >> footnote: >> >> "Joe Blow (b. 15.1.74) <ref>Note the New York Times stated he was born on >> January 14 - (ref). However, this source shows the actual date to be 14 >> Jan >> </ref> >> >> The added advantage is it means editors don't add the incorrect >> information in again at a later date. >> >> ----------------------------- >> >> I agree completely with the above. >> >> >> Will Johnson > > > > In effect, this is suggesting an amendment a bit like this: > > > "Corrections to published information presented by the subject and not found > in third party sources may be incorporated in the article or its footnotes > to improve the quality of the article, subject to 1/ the correction must be > carefully checked and confirmed to be from the subject or their appointed > representative, 2/ such a statement corrects but does not replace the > published information; it must be clear that this is a correction of cited > and otherwise verified information as stated by the subject, and 3/ this > does not override NPOV or the requirement to avoid undue weight, advocacy or > use as a battleground."
You still need a way for later editors to verify things. OTRS ticket? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
