The problem is with Indian Media and newspaper industry.Earlier times Cheif
editors and Subeditors used to insist and guide for crossconfirmation of the
information being collected and that is part and parcle of journalists primary
responsibility.
No doubt even wiki editors can make mistakes but atleast on wiki one can make
corrections.How one will make corrections in newspaper report ? If journalist
of a news paper has made a mistake,people need to ask the media editors
first.Wikipedia is just a seondary source of info.As much a journalist has made
a mistake , it is equally mistaken to blame internet and wikipedia blindly.I
suppose.
On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 6:06 AM, jayant kirtane <j_kirt...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Yesterday I met Smt Shruti Sadolikar, musician, in the Music Department of
Mumbai University located in the rear of Churchgate station. In a discussion
with PhD students, a question was raised regarding the reliability of citing
internet references. Some of us gave examples about how Wikipedia was used all
over the world for all kinds of reasons. Smt Sadolikar, who was present, gave
an instance of wrong information in Wikipedia:
"Sadolikar was born 1951 into a family from Kolhapur which was known for its
musical tradition and owning sugar mills.[3][4] " in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shruti_Sadolikar. She said that "a hundred
people" had mentioned the bit about owning sugar mills. This was factually
incorrect, and gave the wrong impression that she came from an affluent family.
Now [4] is a newspaper article: Tandon, Aditi, "Three days of rich musical
treat", The Tribune, 6 November 2000. I looked up the source, and sure enough,
it mentions the sugar mills. So it seems that whoever wrote the article merely
repeated a factual error in the source (which has been properly cited as [4] ).
Smt Sadolikar's father and guru was a musician, Marathi stage artist, music
director, etc. His Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamanrao_Sadolikar makes no mention of sugar mills.
Smt Sadolikar had a point to make: if Wikipedia is to put information about
her in the public domain, is it not their responsibility to inform her about
it and confirm that the information is factual? Some of us had said that
Wikipedia was not organized along the principles of, say, a newspaper, but if a
factual error was brought to its notice, it would be corrected. In that spirit
I am sending this mail to your mailing list.
Like the rest of the world I am a grateful user and great fan of Wikipedia.
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