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Online Search Tools - Deep Web Search. Idaho Employee Catches Flack For Wikiediting. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia may be frowned upon in most classrooms because it’s not seen as authoritative in the classic sense. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a go-to source of information for millions of people around the world. So what do you do if you see a Wiki page that you think is inaccurate? On August 27 Melissa McGrath edited the Wikipedia page on Tom Luna. McGrath is Communications Director for Idaho’s Department of Education and Tom Luna, Idaho’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, is her boss. Luna inspires strong feelings in Idaho, both positive and negative. Most recently for his Students Come First education laws which voters will consider repealing on the November ballot. McGrath says someone told her Luna’s wiki page was inaccurate.

The page McGrath altered contained factually incorrect information such as, "Mr. But an anonymous blogger on the liberal website The Daily Kos criticized her saying McGrath was whitewashing Luna’s image. Here’s the problem. Talk:The Human Stain. Question of timing[edit] Editors need to respect the chronology of events. Critics commented on the book in 2000, when it came out, and we represent what they said then. Roth did not publicly respond at the time; in 2008, he said it was not Broyard; in 2012 he said it was Tumin. It is POV to try to rewrite the history; this is not a criminal case, but literary discussion. The encyclopedic issue is whether "the chronology of events" ends up effectively being a WP:UNDUE presentation of wrong information.

Seth nails down my position as well. (e/c)Just as long as we also don't misrepresent the criticism, which in many cases was, 'there may or may not be a connection to Broyard but it is a useful insight [to the critics and perhaps readers of the work] to contemplate the parallels.' Critical interpretation[edit] This section needs serious work and revision (particularly in light of the controversy over the particular article). Agree with Alanscottwalker. 1. I did not "erase your comments.

" The Human Stain. An Open Letter to Wikipedia About Anatole Broyard and "The Human Stain" I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all. Yet when, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by the “English Wikipedia Administrator”—in a letter dated August 25th and addressed to my interlocutor—that I, Roth, was not a credible source: “I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work,” writes the Wikipedia Administrator—“but we require secondary sources.”

Thus was created the occasion for this open letter. After failing to get a change made through the usual channels, I don’t know how else to proceed. As for Anatole Broyard, was he ever in the Navy? IceRocket real-time search. State Government Offices, Local US Government, City Government and Federal Government. Startpage Search Engine. Lawyer, Lawyers, Attorney, Attorneys, Law, Legal Information - FindLaw. Urban Legends Reference Pages. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources - Refdesk.

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