From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   >If a family member DOES update a page,   
   >the officious Wikipedes will revert the announcement   
   >and wait until someone who heard it from someone else   
   >he believes posts it instead.   
      
   >This goes for a family member announcing a death   
   >OR correcting a false report of a death...if it   
   >wasn't invented somewhere else by someone without   
   >direct connection they don't want to hear it.   
      
   If Wikipedia is edited in that outrageous manner, that true information   
   from a first-hand source is rejected, that's in support of my position.   
      
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