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   On 5/18/2024 9:49 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > Aje RavenStar  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> . . .   
   >   
   >> Some may remember back in 2022 when Gilbert Gottfried's death was   
   >> announced.  I immediately hopped on Wikipedia to his listing to check   
   >> and managed to get a screen cap there of the report of his death, citing   
   >> a particular perverse cause of death (which I still strongly expect he   
   >> arranged to happen at least five minutes before the press release of the   
   >> news), just minutes before that particular claim was removed.  (Which I   
   >> posted on the AO facebook page)  So there are times (or at least once)   
   >> when Wikipedia was first with the valid news.   
   >   
   > You saw the death announcement, then put it in Wikipedia. Unless a   
   > family member updates the Wikipedia page directly, Wikipedia can never   
   > be first.   
      
   Uh, again, I did what?  (I was not then, and am not now, registered as a   
   contributor to Wikipedia, and I believe it would have taken longer to   
   set myself up as one than the particular claim remained on GG's wikipage)   
      
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