2009/8/8 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]>: > Should I use the journalist's Linkedin profile as a source? I > don't think that is acceptable. All sorts of lies could hide > there. And users could remove themselves from Linkedin or edit > their profile at any time. Old issues of Who's who don't change, > they are a stable reference.
Primary sources are useful, but only for certain things. Linkedin could never be the main source for an article. > But the fact is, Who's who is/was also based on user-submitted > autobiographies. The editors made a list of people who "should" > be in there, and sent invitations with a form where the person > could fill in details about family, education, career, > publications, awards, and hobbies. I'm not sure how the editors > fact checked the entries. Perhaps the risk of public shame was > enough to keep people from lying. What makes you think people didn't lie? _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
