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devinplatt ◴[] No.44619933[source]
This reminds me a lot of the special policies Wikipedia has developed through experience about sensitive topics, like biographies of living persons, deaths, etc.
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1. eloeffler ◴[] No.44620034[source]
I know one story that may have become such an experience. It's about Wikipedia Germany and I don't know what the policies there actually are.

A German 90s/2000s rapper (Textor, MC of Kinderzimmer Productions) produced a radio feature about facts and how hard it can be to prove them.

One personal example he added was about his Wikipedia Article that stated that his mother used to be a famous jazz singer in her birth country Sweden. Except she never was. The story had been added to an Album recension in a rap magazine years before the article was written. Textor explains that this is part of 'realness' in rap, which has little to do with facts and more with attitude.

When they approached Wikipedia Germany, it was very difficult to change this 'fact' about the biography of his mother. There was published information about her in a newspaper and she could not immediately prove who she was. Unfortunately, Textor didn't finish the story and moved on to the next topic in the radio feature.

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2. btilly ◴[] No.44622700[source]
They still do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Tilly is my sister. It claims that she is of Irish descent. She is not. The Irish was her stepfather (my father), and some reporter confusing information about a stepparent with information about a parent.

Now some school in Seattle is claiming that she is an alumnus. That's also false. After moving from Texada, she went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Secondary_School and then https://esquimalt.sd61.bc.ca/.

But for all that, Wikipedia reporting does average out to more accurate than most newspaper articles...