Traditional newspapers like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post have also received Wikipedia’s greenlight. According to Wikipedia, Slate is considered generally reliable, which has us feeling chuffed. The Wikipedia verdict on sources like the Daily Mail can be found by searching Wikipedia for “WP:RSP,” which leads to a list of so-called Perennial Sources. Going forward, any user who attempted to cite the tabloid on a Wikipedia page would receive a warning and a request to cite a more reliable publication. After an extended discussion process, the Wikipedia editing community decided that the Daily Mail was a “generally unreliable” source that should not be used on Wikipedia. Volunteer Wikipedia editors argued that the Daily Mail had made a habit of spreading misinformation, referencing the paper’s then-recent sanctions from the International Press Standards Organisation for violating professional norms for accuracy. ![]() That same month, the English Wikipedia user Hillbillyholiday launched a “ Request for comment” about the Daily Mail, a top-selling British tabloid newspaper. In January 2017, the United Kingdom House of Commons launched a parliamentary inquiry into the “growing phenomenon of fake news.” The chairman behind the inquiry expressed concern about the effect of fabricated news stories on democracy, particularly the influence on voters in the recent United States election. Sometimes (a lot of times?) the internal politics of Wikipedia mirrors its real-world counterparts. Her persona encourages fans to convert to her own personal religion, "Judyism".Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Tenuta is also an accomplished author as she published her first book, The Power of Judyism in 1991, following up with an audio CD version in 1999. ![]() She would go on to be nominated for Best Actress at the 2012 Laugh or Die Comedy Fest for her performance. Going Down in LA-LA Land and the Mother Nun in the independent horror comedy Sister Mary. In 2011, she played Zania, a menacing, aging actress, in the independent film, In addition to Judy's appearances on the late 1990's revival of Match Game, she has also appeared as a panelist on Hollywood Squares and appeared on a celebrity edition of Street Smarts hosted by fellow comedian Frank Nicotero. In 1998, around the time she began appearing on the Match Game revival, Judy conceived, produced and starred in the film Desperation Boulevard which was directed and written by Greg Glienna, of Meet the Parents fame. In 1994, she was nominated for her first Grammy, for her comedy CD titled Attention Butt Pirates and Lesbetarians and one year later, Tenuta was nominated for her second Grammy, for her second comedy CD titled In Goddess We Trust. ![]() She also became the first female stand-up to win the "Best Female Comedienne" at The American Comedy Awards. In 1987, she became nationally known in her first HBO special Women of the Night, co-starring alongside fellow comediennes Ellen DeGeneres, Paula Poundstone and Rita Rudner. She is also well known for her often quoted catch phrase, "It could happen!" Her most extensive profile came from a series of TV ads for MTV and most notably, Diet Dr Pepper in the late-1980s, as well as her HBO, Showtime and Lifetime specials which became popular and gained her a loyal following. She has been featured in several productions of "Weird Al" Yankovic, including The Weird Al Show and the music videos for "Headline News" and "White & Nerdy". Tenuta first gained notoriety as a wisecracking, accordion-wielding self-proclaimed "Petite Flower and Love Goddess" during the golden age of character comedy in the mid '80s with such notable contemporaries as Sam Kinison and Steven Wright. Native of Oak Park, Illinois and one of nine siblings in a large Catholic family, to a Polish mother Joann, and an Italian father, Caesar. She appeared as a regular on the 1998-1999 revival of the classic Game Show Match Game. Judy Tenuta (born Judy Lynn Tenuta on Novemin Oak Park, IL) is an American Comedienne, Actress, Producer, and Accordionist.
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