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Wikipedia Watch: Yuri Gadyukin Hoax
An elaborate Wikipedia hoax involves a purported Soviet film director — who never existed. Among his alleged works is “Where the Tractors Roam.” The Wikipedia page is gone, but it has been mirrored...
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The Death of Ted Healy — Part 15
Dec. 28, 1937: Betty Braun Healy meets with Dist. Atty. Buron Fitts over her allegations about the death of Ted Healy. At the conclusion of the conference, she agreed that Healy had died of natural...
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The ‘Decline’ of Wikipedia
A world without Wikipedia? Sounds good to me. Tom Simonite in the MIT Technology Review looks at the “decline” of Wikipedia (that would, of course, assume that it was ever worth anything). Yet...
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Another Wikipedia Hoax Exposed
A regular reader forwarded the following post to me, regarding our go-to source for misinformation: Wikipedia. Writing in The Daily Dot, E.J. Dickson describes surprise in discovering that a 2009 edit...
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Wikipedia vs. Joe Streater
Thanks to Earl Boebert for pointing us to this one. From Awfulannouncing.com: For years, [Joe] Streater has been falsely linked with one of the greatest scandals in the history of college sports....
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Wikipedia Strikes Again: Madison Bumgarner Edition
This entry on Madison Bumgarner has been fixed. But that it happened at all illustrates one of the main weaknesses of Wikipedia, which can be edited by anyone. Via Romenesko. The apparent vandal,...
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Black Dahlia: Wikipedia Fail
Here is what’s wrong with Wikipedia: “The Black Dahlia” was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short … Short acquired the moniker posthumously by newspapers in the habit of nicknaming crimes they found...
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Can Wikipedia Survive? Oh, I Hope Not
Behind the boosterism of this opinion piece by Andrew Lih in the New York Times (“it is by far the world’s most popular reference site” – notice that he doesn’t call it the world’s most accurate...
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Wikipedia: A Fact-Checker’s Shooting Gallery
Well, it works for me. I wanted a quick answer to the date of Aaron Copland’s “El Salon Mexico,” and sure enough, at the top of the Google search there was my old nemesis Wikipedia. I usually exclude...
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Wikipedia Watch: Yuri Gadyukin Hoax
An elaborate Wikipedia hoax involves a purported Soviet film director — who never existed. Among his alleged works is “Where the Tractors Roam.” The Wikipedia page is gone, but it has been mirrored...
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The Death of Ted Healy — Part 15
Dec. 28, 1937: Betty Braun Healy meets with Dist. Atty. Buron Fitts over her allegations about the death of Ted Healy. At the conclusion of the conference, she agreed that Healy had died of natural...
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The ‘Decline’ of Wikipedia
A world without Wikipedia? Sounds good to me. Tom Simonite in the MIT Technology Review looks at the “decline” of Wikipedia (that would, of course, assume that it was ever worth anything). Yet...
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Black Dahlia: Wikipedia Fail
Here is what’s wrong with Wikipedia: “The Black Dahlia” was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short … Short acquired the moniker posthumously by newspapers in the habit of nicknaming crimes they found...
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Can Wikipedia Survive? Oh, I Hope Not
Behind the boosterism of this opinion piece by Andrew Lih in the New York Times (“it is by far the world’s most popular reference site” – notice that he doesn’t call it the world’s most accurate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wikipedia: A Fact-Checker’s Shooting Gallery
Well, it works for me. I wanted a quick answer to the date of Aaron Copland’s “El Salon Mexico,” and sure enough, at the top of the Google search there was my old nemesis Wikipedia. I usually exclude...
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Black Dahlia: Crackpot Theory of the Day
Every so often, my curiosity gets the better of me and I venture out on the Internet to take the pulse of Black Dahlia theories. On Tuesday, for example, I strolled over to rollingstone.com to see...
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Black Dahlia: Are There Any Good Black Dahlia Sites on the Internet? Part 2
John Gilmore’s “Severed” was once the most popular book on the Black Dahlia case, although it was eclipsed by Steve Hodel’s seemingly endless series of “Black Dahlia Avenger” books. You may Google...
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Black Dahlia: Caught in the Act – Steve Hodel Adds Lies to George Hodel’s...
So I just caught Steve Hodel inserting a nice, fat lie in his dad’s Wikipedia page. Oh this is so much fun! Steve Hodel is trying to link the Black Dahlia and Suzanne Degnan killings. So he’s inserted...
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Black Dahlia: Now on Wikipedia — Hodel vs. Hodel Family Feud!
OK, I admit it. I love that this is happening. This is Steve Hodel vs. Fauna Hodel’s daughter Rasha Pecoraro on the question of the Hodel family DNA and whether it shows that George Hodel was Fauna...
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Black Dahlia: ‘Suspect’ Jacob Edward Fisk — Wikipedia Prank Takes on a Life...
Let’s see what happens when Wikipedia vandalism takes on a life of its own. That would be Black Dahlia “suspect” Jacob Edward Fisk. Never a suspect. It was all just a prank. On April 13, 2009, someone...
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