Gary Kirk

Today’s (obviously…) Mail on Sunday - the tabloid that thinks it’s a broadsheet here in the UK - has an article on its website where four moderately well-known faces comment on Wikipedia. It’s a mixed bunch, with Edwina Currie declaring it rubbish and directing fans to her own site, complete with malformed domain name, to others taking the widely-accepted view that, as a wiki and a top-10 website, there are always going to be errors, but our volunteer editors try our utmost to quickly weed them out.

Of course, this being the MoS, there are errors - I wish we could weed them out! For example, Essjay’s supposed 20,000 edits - I think you’ll find it was 16,650, as I told Catherine Elsworth of The Daily Telegraph last week and she quickly updated it.
Read it yourselves

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