As usual, a useful compilation of stories. Thanks. One comment, though, regarding The Weaponization of Wikipedia a blog and podcast by conservative broadcast journalist Sheryl Attkisson focuses on Wikipedia's "agenda editors". I'm not at all familiar with this person/dispute, but "podcaster doesn't like their article, complains on own website" seems to stand out from the rest of the entries on this list. No problem with covering the dispute, but maybe let's wait for anyone else to pick it up first? — Rhododendritestalk \\ 16:41, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You might be right to wait for a better mention in the media. But she is a pretty well-known media figure on her own (formerly with CBS, etc.) now airing on Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair is quietly a very big news outlet with similarities to Fox. Somebody at Signpost suggestions mentioned this a a possible "Gobbler of the Month" last month. I half-way agreed, but I also like the various formats where people get their views across to Wikipedians on "their article". Several years back there was a long discussion on "the right of reply" to Wikipedia. Of course that right has always existed in different formats. So I'll just say I have mixed feelings. Smallbones(smalltalk)17:51, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding "She denies that she has done anti-vaccine reporting as stated in the Wikipedia article on her", that makes it sound like the article has a sentence or two about this. In fact, that article includes an subsection, "Anti-vaccine reporting", with eight citations. In short, it isn't "Wikipedia" that is saying something that Attkisson doesn't like, it's lots of reliable sources. -- John Broughton(♫♫)23:20, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, my sentence on that is correct but understated (which is better than being overstated). I didn't want to concentrate on the old issue, but look at the idea of essentially 'writing your own Wikipedia article off-Wiki' which to me, at least, is more interesting than the pretty typical 'BLP dispute with multiple reliable references on one side'. Smallbones(smalltalk)13:51, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That's a good link that I hadn't noticed. Thanks. As is common on Commons they talk about all aspects of the situation but don't ultimately decide on much. But Commoners did take action on their own. See the extra caption at the bottom of the Kenny Chesney photo above. The same extra caption has been placed on the other 20 photos uploaded by that photographer. Smallbones(smalltalk)02:12, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think the general idea is that you should be an alien from a billion years in the future who has easy access to quick and cheap space travel, but who has never read Wikipedia. Some of that is not 100% impossible. Smallbones(smalltalk)05:08, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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