Ray Saintonge wrote: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> 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? > What makes you think they did?
Because people tend to sort of do this thing, in such circumstances -- tone up the positives, tone down the negatives. I was translating the entries for the equivalent of the mentioned biographical dictionaries once. Another example is how like everybody's bio in post-Soviets of 1990s sort of suddenly lost any relation to the Communist party. -- _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
