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The more interesting one was Paloma Faith, whose incorrect age had been widely reported by some reputable U.K. national newspapers. In 2012 Wikipedia editors t
by JdeBP 11y ago
The more interesting one was Paloma Faith, whose incorrect age had been widely reported by some reputable U.K. national newspapers. In 2012 Wikipedia editors turned up early and local news coverage that gave her correct age, two years before the U.K. national news eventually reported that she had been lying about her age. They haggled over whether the national newspapers outweighed the local/early news and the information put out by the school that she had attended, for the better part of a year, getting sidetracked several times along the way.
I documented another case that wasn't biographical:
* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/legacy-encoding-has-no-definition.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/le...