More Wikkan Writings
May. 13th, 2011 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steepholmOut of curiosity, I had a look at my brother's Wiki page to see if it had been put through the same mill as mine (sibling rivalry never dies). His still looks pretty clean, but since I last visited he has sprouted an extra "fact", namely: "his cousin is the former royal butler Paul Burrell."
This is news to me! Puzzling, too. It's not funny enough to be a joke, but it's hard to see how anyone could seriously have got this idea into their head. We don't even have a cousin called Paul. Could our surname have confused the hapless editor? We do have a cousin who's the Duke of Westminster's PA, which I suppose is in the same ball park, but she bears no resemblance at all to Princess Diana's grovel-and-tell publicity hound.
The ways of Wiki are strange. I'm tempted to correct the page, but even more tempted to leave it alone.
This is news to me! Puzzling, too. It's not funny enough to be a joke, but it's hard to see how anyone could seriously have got this idea into their head. We don't even have a cousin called Paul. Could our surname have confused the hapless editor? We do have a cousin who's the Duke of Westminster's PA, which I suppose is in the same ball park, but she bears no resemblance at all to Princess Diana's grovel-and-tell publicity hound.
The ways of Wiki are strange. I'm tempted to correct the page, but even more tempted to leave it alone.