Re:A Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System
by gwern on Sunday October 21, 2018 @03:06PM
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I think you're making a lot of assumptions about how easy it is to learn these things now that a longform article has dug it all up and excerpted the most salacious bits for you. If you are a Wikipedian 5 or 10 years ago doing a bit of work on the article and sketching out a stub, where do you get a copy of trial testimony from Sewell, if you even know about it? You going to drive over to Texas to visit the court room and pay $0.1/page for photocopies and read a few hundred pages in case there's something useful?
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Re:A Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System
by setr on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:40PM
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Thats gp’s point though, isn’t it? For such a vast crime, its managed to get covered up to an impressive degree, even despite his death. It normally shouldn’t be that difficult to unearth such a controversial and recent event; and wikipedia, which often manages to cover events faded from the public memory, has failed to cover this, speaks to the degree at which this has been covered up.