Suppose for discussion's sake we can fully trust that the brother-in-law of Jeane Dixon's nephew has indeed commented upon the matter. Relatives have been known to get their facts wrong. The more distant, the more likely a mistake.
My own cousins and I debate the spelling of a grandmother's name. And certain records are unverifiable because of warehouse fires. In a few instances I know the later records are wrong because I was present when the later data was recorded and the person who answered the questions, who was choked with grief, simply misspoke. Others who were present were jet lagged from sudden arrangements to attend the funeral and too slow to react. There's a family member who ought to have a military honor on his burial marker but doesn't, because of that. I wish I'd had the presence of mind to correct the omission when the opportunity came. Let's go with the secondary sources here. No disrespect intended. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Kat Walsh <k...@mindspillage.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The soundbite I use is that "Wikipedia outsources truth". The debate > about > > what is or isn't true is not ours but is played out amongst the various > > sources that we can draw upon as references. > > Good soundbite. :-) > > -Kat > > -- > Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en > Wikimedia, Press: k...@wikimedia.org * Personal: k...@mindspillage.org > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:Mindspillage > mindspillage or mind|wandering on irc.freenode.net * email for phone > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l