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When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia
unixluv writes "Evidently, Wikipedia doesn't believe an author on his own motivations when trying to correct an article on his own book. A Wikipedia administrator claimed they need 'secondary sources.' I'm not sure where you would go to get a secondary source when you are the only author of a work. Thus, in a lengthy blog post for The New Yorker, Roth created his own secondary source. He wrote, 'My novel The Human Stain was described in the entry as "allegedly inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard." ... This alleged allegation is in no way substantiated by fact. The Human Stain was inspired, rather, by an unhappy event in the life of my late friend Melvin Tumin, professor of sociology at Princeton for some thirty years.' The Wikipedia page has now been corrected."
Or just sue the Wikipedia Corporation. They had ample opportunity to correct the Defaming statement, but refused to listen to the author being biographied. Therefore the author should have sued them.............. and no I don't think that's taking it too far. Corporations certainly don't hold back from suing their own customers, so why should we individuals hold back?
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"