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Re:How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled Across the Web by gort on Saturday June 27, 2009 @05:16PM (#677190)
In the Wikipedia article history, I can find the edit you mention at 21:12 and the edit freeze at 21:45, but not the edit you mention at 21:48...

This page should show the relevant part of the history: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Jackson...

I would say Wikipedia confirmed the death at 22:27, just after MSNBC and CNN, which is consistent with Wikipedia policy of relying on mainstream sources.

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Re:How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled Across the Web by DannyDover on Saturday June 27, 2009 @06:57PM (#677288)
This is very odd. When I viewed the page (see screenshot taken at 22:56 below) I saw his death added to the article twice, once at 21:46 by editor "fixman" and then again at 21:48 by an anonymous editor.

Update: User Gort pointed out that I was looking at the talk page of the article revision history rather than the revision history itself. Easy mistake to make. Post updated and tail between my legs...

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Re:How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled Across the Web by gort on Saturday June 27, 2009 @07:05PM (#677294)
That's the talk page history, not the article history.
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