Re: FALSE INFORMATION

From	"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
Newsgroups	alt.obituaries
Subject	Re: FALSE INFORMATION
Date	2024-05-19 02:28 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>Aje RavenStar <whinebucket@comcast.net> 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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Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92 bryan_styble <radioactiveseattle@hotmail.com> - 2024-05-17 15:17 +0000
  Re: Dabney Coleman? Travoltron <Travoltron@fakeemail.com> - 2024-05-17 10:31 -0700
    Re: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92 Travoltron <Travoltron@fakeemail.com> - 2024-05-17 17:01 -0700
      Re: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92 bryan_styble <radioactiveseattle@hotmail.com> - 2024-05-18 01:35 +0000
  FALSE INFORMATION (was: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92) "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-05-17 17:54 +0000
    Re: FALSE INFORMATION bryan_styble <radioactiveseattle@hotmail.com> - 2024-05-17 20:32 +0000
      Re: FALSE INFORMATION "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-05-17 20:44 +0000
        Re: Confirmed - Dabney Coleman dead at 92 countymayo@yahoo.com (Diner99) - 2024-05-17 22:13 +0000
        Confirmed - Dabney Coleman dead at 92 countymayo@yahoo.com (Diner99) - 2024-05-17 22:11 +0000
    Re: FALSE INFORMATION (was: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92) INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com.invalid (J.D. Baldwin) - 2024-05-18 11:49 +0000
      Re: FALSE INFORMATION (was: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92) "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-05-18 13:11 +0000
        Re: FALSE INFORMATION Aje RavenStar <whinebucket@comcast.net> - 2024-05-18 08:54 -0500
          Re: FALSE INFORMATION "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-05-18 14:49 +0000
            Re: FALSE INFORMATION Aje RavenStar <whinebucket@comcast.net> - 2024-05-18 09:24 -0500
            Re: FALSE INFORMATION Aje RavenStar <whinebucket@comcast.net> - 2024-05-18 09:29 -0500
            Re: FALSE INFORMATION David Carson <davidc@wa-wd.com> - 2024-05-18 14:35 -0500
              Re: FALSE INFORMATION "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-05-18 21:16 +0000
            Re: FALSE INFORMATION Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2024-05-19 01:29 +0000
              Re: FALSE INFORMATION "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-05-19 02:28 +0000
                Re: FALSE INFORMATION Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2024-05-19 03:40 +0000
        Re: FALSE INFORMATION (was: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92) INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com.invalid (J.D. Baldwin) - 2024-05-19 13:20 +0000
          Re: FALSE INFORMATION (was: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92) "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-05-19 13:55 +0000
      Re: FALSE INFORMATION Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2024-05-19 01:27 +0000
  Re: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92 "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-05-17 22:20 +0000
    Re: Dabney Coleman, versatile character actor, 92 mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk (Mig.Rhodes) - 2024-05-20 08:46 +0000

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