Anybody who takes anything written or anything said as gospel (not needing to be verified), is going to screw up. The complaints people have about wikipedia are the very thing that makes it great. It's completely revisable. Warning people that wikipedia is sometimes inaccurate is the same logic that keeps us printing "this is not a toy" on plastic bags. Corroborate everything, assume nothing is gospel.
To make this back on topic, I just posted a story on This Is Pulp on my very revisable blog. :)
J.
SFFAudio: http://www.sffaudio.com
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Gonzalo Baeza <gbaeza@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Gonzalo Baeza <gbaeza@gmail.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: "Pulp" broadcasts on BBC7
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 11:53 AM
I remember how in the last newspaper I worked for the editors sent
out a memo warning every reporter not to use Wikipedia unless they
could corroborate its information with other sources.
Wikipedia is good in that it fills a void that's not covered by
conventional encyclopedias, especially when it comes to pop culture.
Nonetheless, you have to to use it with caution. The way it
operates, it's too vulnerable to deliberate misinformation.
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