It’s good that we can use vanity to force celebrities to think of free licenses. He might have been successful if he’d just removed the actual image link (but then again maybe not) however it stands to reason a middle-aged newspaper humor columnist might not be the most adept with markup languages. 10,000 Years of … Some aptronyms are ironic rather than descriptive, being called inaptronyms by Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post. Grant Balfour, baseball pitcher; Frank Beard, an American musician who, until c. 2013, was the only member of rock band ZZ Top without a beard; Don Black, white supremacist Providing a clear option for expressing a specific concern rather than forcing the expression of that problem to be an edit rather than a request is something Wikipedians should think about again. "[24] Weingarten's inspiration for Old Dogs came shortly after the death of his dog, Harry S Truman, who is also featured in the book. For example, educators once warned students away from Wikipedia, but now editing Wikipedia is an increasingly common pedagogical tool, for which a great deal of credit is owed to the Wiki Education Foundation. Oddly enough, this didn’t work. Gene Weingarten Proves Wikipedia Still Needs a Better Way to Deal With Feedback Tagged as Anatole Broyard, Andrew Lih, Gene Weingarten, Philip Roth, Reliable sources, The Human Stain, The New Yorker, Twitter, Washington Post, Wiki Education Foundation on October 3, … We already have the IRC help channels, but fail to leverage them maximally because most people have no idea what IRC is. [4][5] Weingarten is known for both his serious and humorous work. But this was still a hard column to write. [14] It is said to be the first atheist-themed children's book. Weingarten left college three credits short of a degree. [17] Selected passages were later re-posted on his column.[18]. Gene Weingarten MediaWire Online News Association Top Stories. However, Weingarten admitted responsibility in 1999, writing, "I run a reader-participation contest every Sunday in The Post. In each case, both men found fault with their biographical entries on Wikipedia, and used their access to the mainstream media to call attention to the changes. "[4][34] The night Weingarten returned from accepting his Pulitzer Prize, he received an email from a librarian named Paul Musgrave from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, who told him that he had recently seen an article about a similar experiment that the Chicago Evening Post did in May 1930 where they had the virtuoso Jacques Gordon play his Stradivarius violin outside a subway station to see if commuters would notice the music. Providing a clear option for expressing a specific concern rather than forcing the expression of that problem to be an edit rather than a request is something Wikipedians should think about again. He grew up in the southwest Bronx, the son of an accountant who worked as an Internal Revenue Service agent and a schoolteacher. The causes of this failure are many. The fact is Weingarten and Roth are both able to command a major media audience via a “reliable source” platform that the vast majority of people (and bands, brands, teams, companies, nonprofits, &c.) do not. I doubt this is OTRS, because they at least would have sent back a perfunctory reply. This past week brings us another example, highlighted by a September 29 column in the Washington Post Magazine by Gene Weingarten, titled “Dear Wikipedia: Please change my photo!” This comes more than four years after Philip Roth published “An Open Letter to Wikipedia” online at The New Yorker. There is some awareness that editing one’s own biography is fraught with peril—“(One is evidently not allowed to alter one’s own entry. [6] In 1968, Weingarten graduated from The Bronx High School of Science[8] and attended New York University, where he started as a pre-med student but ended up majoring in psychology. So, everything worked itself out, right? [12][13] Illustrator Eric Shansby contributes drawings to the column, which has been a long-term collaboration over 10 years. That's it. I’ve argued previously for placing a button on each entry to solicit feedback, feeding into a public queue for editorial review. Weingarten hosts a popular Washington Post online chat called "Chatological Humor," formerly known as "Tuesdays with Moron." [43], Weingarten has stated he is an atheist. Together they profiled and photographed 63 dogs between the ages of 10 and 17 years old over the course of two and a half years. Gene Weingarten Gene Weingarten is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writes "Below the Beltway," a weekly humor column that is nationally syndicated. Perhaps this is where a feedback button should go first. As of 2011, he was semi-retired from the paper, working on other projects. 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[29], In September 2014, Weingarten published Me & Dog, a picture book, in collaboration with illustrator Eric Shansby. [11] In 1984 he created the Herald Hunt, along with Barry and his current editor at the Washington Post, Tom Shroder, whom he refers to frequently in his online chats as "Tom the Butcher". This is the same “I can’t follow instructions without THIS MUCH handholding” argument that keeps coming back. However, he will still answer questions posed by other contributors to the chat. When someone is unhappy with their Wikipedia entry, that they have no idea what can be done about it isn’t really their fault. However, in matters like Philip Roth, it would have been obliged not to act. But I can’t find any record of him asking before he tried deleting (and to be fair, I haven’t asked him, either). Statements. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? He was editor of the NYU daily student newspaper, The Heights Daily News. When someone is unhappy with their Wikipedia entry, that they have no idea what can be done about it isn’t really their fault. [37][38], In 2014, Weingarten was awarded the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. Many of his columns addressing gender differences have been written in a he-said, she-said style in collaboration with humorist Gina Barreca, his co-author for I'm with Stupid. Interview: Gene Weingarten, Author Of 'One Day' The humorist asked three strangers to pick a random day, month and year out of a hat — December 28, … Gene Weingarten DSCF4964 04.jpg 1,333 × 1,000; 218 KB Gene Weingarten speaking before Joshua Bell concert at Union Station in DC.jpg 2,152 × 3,018; 2.15 MB Gene Weingarten.jpg 1,321 × 2,042; 714 KB By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. The bigger problem is: how would either of them even know about OTRS in order to contact it? [28] The comic took over five years to develop, with the Miami Herald, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune early supporters. No answer. [2][3] He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and is the only person to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing twice. Looking at Weingarten’s edits, it’s not hard to see why his attempts to remove the photo were overturned: more than once he simply deleted the entire infobox. 1 reference. We have created a browser extension. It turns out Joshua Bell had owned that same Stradivarius violin for over 10 years. Weingarten then moved back to New York City to work at The National Law Journal.[2]. واینگارتن صاحب دو جایزهٔ پولیتزر در روزنامهنگاری است. Follow Whether it’s actually an improvement is a matter on which reasonable people can disagree. That’s just how Wikipedia works? این صفحه آخرینبار در ۲۲ ژوئن ۲۰۲۰ ساعت ۱۹:۰۰ ویرایش شدهاست. No answer. “One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America,” Blue Rider Press, by Gene Weingarten. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is a Jewish American Grammy Award-winning violinist. The following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total. https://t.co/9NyIlfy7oj, — Gene Weingarten (@geneweingarten) September 29, 2016. We can assign some blame to Wikipedia’s strict policies regarding copyrights and reliance on crowdsourced images which has made its often-poor celebrity headshots both a source of angst and amusement. The method they used to get action not only doesn’t scale, it rarely happens at all due to most article subjects’ fear of a “Streisand effect” bringing undue attention to their article. He might have been successful if he’d just removed the actual image link (but then again maybe not) however it stands to reason a middle-aged newspaper humor columnist might not be the most adept with markup languages. Wikipedia has two kinds of problems.
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