4 ms·

Do we have official confirmation? Someone on this Twitter thread says it was the coronavirus. Heartbroken.

• agumonkey 7y ago
  Wikipedia page still not updated http://archive.is/NieYz http://archive.is/NieYz maybe confusion? let's hope
  • vikramkr 7y ago
    Looks like there was an is/was edit war and the page is now locked pending some sort of confirmation
    • howenterprisey 7y ago
      Yup, I locked it pending the outcome of the talk page discussion; it would be nice to have a non-twitter source to point to.
    • agumonkey 7y ago
      > edit war probably, duckduckgo preview even showed "John Conway war a British" a few seconds ago. Aptly typoed
  • segfaultbuserr 7y ago
    Wikipedia is not the place for "truth", it's only an extremely useful machine that summarizes information from secondary sources. It can only repeat information from trusted, secondary sources (there are exceptions to primary sources, but only when the source is universally considered trusted, which is not the case here). Even if the information is true, if it's not published by a trusted secondary source elsewhere, it cannot claim that. Similarly, the claims by Wikipedia cannot be cited as reliable information, but the sources of the claims can. So Wikipedia, by its policies, cannot be updated until there's sufficient press coverage (Although verification != press coverage, and there are legitimate criticisms that say verification on Wikipedia via popular press coverage is often given an undue weight, on the other hand reliable professional literature is undercited, which can compromise Wikipedia's integrity, but it's another story). It's frustrating that many people fail to grasp how Wikipedia works.
• ColinWright 7y ago
  See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22844444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22844444