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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Author tries to correct Wikipedia error about his
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Fri Sep 7 15:45:41 2012
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:21:03 -0700
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Author tries to correct Wikipedia error about his own work --
Wikipedia tells him to take a hike
http://j.mp/RU6UPR (New Yorker)
I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the
Wikipedia entry discussing my novel "The Human Stain." The entry
contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have
removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of
truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip-there is no truth
in it at all. Yet when, through an official interlocutor, I recently
petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two
others, my interlocutor was told by the "English Wikipedia
Administrator"-in a letter dated August 25th and addressed to my
interlocutor-that I, Roth, was not a credible source: "I understand
your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own
work," writes the Wikipedia Administrator-"but we require secondary
sources."
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Someone please explain to me who the hell can possibly be a "secondary source"
for an author's own stated motivations? Insanity.
--Lauren--
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