Tayva C
1. Clue: This upper east sider is no stranger to gossip. (I was thinking Blake Lively, Leighton Meester or a cast member from Sex and the City.)
http://fashionfix.net-a-porter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/louboutin-comp.jpg
#2. Clue: A singer turned designer recently welcomed a new member to their high profile family. (I was thinking J.Lo or Kim K; but Kim isn't a singer.)
http://fashionfix.net-a-porter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/louboutin-comp.jpg
Answer
1. Blake Lively
2. Don't know
3. Victoria Beckham
1. Blake Lively
2. Don't know
3. Victoria Beckham
Does Wikipedia have the right to talk about celebrities personal lives?
Kristine A
Does Wikipedia have the right to talk about celebrities personal lives? It seems that Wikipedia has become a gossip blog or something. It talk about people's personal live and half of it might not even be true. Is that what an encyclopedia is suppose to do?
Answer
Rick Gates in 1993 was the first to propose a precursor to Wikipedia but the concept of an open source web-based online encyclopedia was proposed a little later by Richard Stallman around 1999. Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger using the concept and technology of a wiki pioneered by Ward Cunningham. Initially, Wikipedia was created to complement Nupedia, an online encyclopedia project edited solely by experts, by providing additional draft articles and ideas for it. Wikipedia quickly overtook Nupedia, becoming a global project in multiple languages and inspiring a wide range of additional reference projects. Today, Wikipedia includes 15 million freely usable articles in over two hundred languages worldwide written by a million registered user accounts and countless anonymous contributors.
As of 1 April 2011 there are approximately 3,600,000 articles in the English Wikipedia and the readers should apply their minds while reading these articles vis a vis documented or cited references for authenticity. There may be a few rotten apples or eggs in the basket but by and large contributors and readers have really helped Wikipedia for it is today.
So, covering celebrities' personal lives is not an issue per se but only when there is a violation of the conscientious line.
What Wikipedia implies is: utmost good faith! But, ironically, its open style was/is exploited by a few mischief-mongers or psychopaths so that they intentionally - at times maliciously - plant false information on the details of celebrities. Wikipedia is a Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource which needs to be used with civility.
But, in haste, when information is uploaded, there are occasions when the information is not backed by authentic footnotes or references; yet Wikipedia management has made allowed for open editing with authentic sources.
Celebrities love publicity. So media in general are interested in propagating information on celebrities' personal lives on the ground that public love those details. Quiet true but still I should say so only with a caveat. Somewhere Wikipedia ought to draw a line of caution when it comes to writing on the personal lives of celebrities. It would not be appropriate to talk of Wikipedia's right. Actually, Wikipedia is trying to weed out mischief on its pages but still contributions flood it that screening all the articles is not instantly feasible.
Rick Gates in 1993 was the first to propose a precursor to Wikipedia but the concept of an open source web-based online encyclopedia was proposed a little later by Richard Stallman around 1999. Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger using the concept and technology of a wiki pioneered by Ward Cunningham. Initially, Wikipedia was created to complement Nupedia, an online encyclopedia project edited solely by experts, by providing additional draft articles and ideas for it. Wikipedia quickly overtook Nupedia, becoming a global project in multiple languages and inspiring a wide range of additional reference projects. Today, Wikipedia includes 15 million freely usable articles in over two hundred languages worldwide written by a million registered user accounts and countless anonymous contributors.
As of 1 April 2011 there are approximately 3,600,000 articles in the English Wikipedia and the readers should apply their minds while reading these articles vis a vis documented or cited references for authenticity. There may be a few rotten apples or eggs in the basket but by and large contributors and readers have really helped Wikipedia for it is today.
So, covering celebrities' personal lives is not an issue per se but only when there is a violation of the conscientious line.
What Wikipedia implies is: utmost good faith! But, ironically, its open style was/is exploited by a few mischief-mongers or psychopaths so that they intentionally - at times maliciously - plant false information on the details of celebrities. Wikipedia is a Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource which needs to be used with civility.
But, in haste, when information is uploaded, there are occasions when the information is not backed by authentic footnotes or references; yet Wikipedia management has made allowed for open editing with authentic sources.
Celebrities love publicity. So media in general are interested in propagating information on celebrities' personal lives on the ground that public love those details. Quiet true but still I should say so only with a caveat. Somewhere Wikipedia ought to draw a line of caution when it comes to writing on the personal lives of celebrities. It would not be appropriate to talk of Wikipedia's right. Actually, Wikipedia is trying to weed out mischief on its pages but still contributions flood it that screening all the articles is not instantly feasible.
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