Re: quick chat with Tameside Reporter

On 6/6/07, David Gerard <dgerard <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Call from a local paper, the Tameside Reporter, about edits to an
> article about a local council member and about a motorway bypass:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Oldham
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longdendale_Bypass
>
> The article about the councillor has been locked (by Doc glasgow)
> since late April. The bypass article is being heavily edited.
>
> Key soundbites:
>
> * It's an encyclopedia, not investigative journalism.
> * With biographies of living people, we have to really consider what's
> important to put in them. We don't want a hatchet job or just praise.
> If they died tomorrow, what would be important enough to put in their
> biography? That sort of thing.
> * Living biographies are about 90% of our biographies, which are 35%
> of the one and a half milliion articles." (Numbers from a quick count
> by Danny a while ago; may be completely wrong now.)
> * Contentious current issues are difficult. We don't want to be an
> activist platform or an anti-activist platform.
> * It's a live working draft of an encyclopedia, not so much a finished
> product. Always check the history tab when looking at an article.
>
> So if we ever see the article, I've given him lots to go on 
>

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