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==Notable examples==

==Notable examples==

*Philip Roth: An absurd situation took place at [[Wikipedia]] when author Philip Roth was trying to correct a serious misstatement that his novel “The Human Stain” was “inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.” This alleged allegation was in no way substantiated by fact as the novel was inspired, rather, by an unhappy event in the life of author's late friend Melvin Tumin, professor of sociology at Princeton. The correction was refused on grounds that Roth, was not a credible source: “I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work,” wrote the Wikipedia Administrator—“but we require secondary sources.”<ref name="Open letter"/> Consequently, author Philip Roth had to publish an open letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite web |author=Cory Doctorow|title=Why Philip Roth needs a secondary source|publisher=The Guardian|date=19 September 2012 |accessdate=03-June-2013|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/19/why-philip-roth-needs-secondary-source|quote=Author Philip Roth had to publish a letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia...}}</ref> while complaining that items entering Wikipedia are not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all.<ref name="Open letter">{{cite web |author=Philip Roth|title=An Open Letter To Wikipedia|date=September 7, 2012|accessdate=03-June-2013|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia.html|quote=Dear Wikipedia, 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.}}</ref>

*Philip Roth: An absurd situation took place at [[Wikipedia]] when author Philip Roth was trying to correct a serious misstatement that his novel “The Human Stain” was “inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.” This alleged allegation was in no way substantiated by fact as the novel was inspired, rather, by an unhappy event in the life of author's late friend Melvin Tumin, professor of sociology at Princeton. The correction was refused on grounds that Roth, was not a credible source: “I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work,” wrote the Wikipedia Administrator—“but we require secondary sources.”<ref name="Open letter"/> Consequently, author Philip Roth had to publish an open letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite web |author=Cory Doctorow|title=Why Philip Roth needs a secondary source|publisher=The Guardian|date=19 September 2012 |accessdate=03-June-2013|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/19/why-philip-roth-needs-secondary-source|quote=Author Philip Roth had to publish a letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia...}}</ref> while complaining that items entering Wikipedia are not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all.<ref name="Open letter">{{cite web |author=Philip Roth|title=An Open Letter To Wikipedia|date=September 7, 2012|accessdate=03-June-2013|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia.html|quote=Dear Wikipedia, 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.}}</ref>

==Wikipedia's role==

==Wikipedia's role==