On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, but our verifiability/reliable sources policy says that we use secondary > sources because they do fact checking. This is a secondary source, > therefore > it must do fact checking. Considering whether the secondary source > *actually* does fact checking is not Wikipedians' job--the policy says it > does, so we have to assume it does!
Actually, I believe People magazine in particular actually does fact checking. If they aren't good enough, presumably the Independent is - it is also cited in the article. But that's neither here nor there. Common sense in this sort of case is that we should expect celebrities to be constantly managing their public brand - particularly on a medium such as Twitter which is used explicitly for that purpose. There's no reason to give much weight to tweets like the one that is now footnote 1 of the article. - Carl _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
