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The Daily Express still hasn't corrected its incredibly silly statement. Winner 42 Talk to me! 23:39, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

It now says, "The site uses 250,000 people ..."

This is a marginal improvement on "The site employs 250,000 people ..."

Reliable sources FTW!!! Andreas JN466 00:22, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

• If Ja Rule is really 5'9", he probably wouldn't mind if someone took a picture of his driver's license to verify that claim. - kosboot (talk) 00:20, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

• Wouldn't that violate WP:BLPPRIMARY? Gamaliel (talk) 00:23, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
• Is the DMV a reliable source? My local DMV doesn't measure my height and weight every time I get my license renewed. I wish I still weighed what my license says! GoingBatty (talk) 03:43, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

• Given the usually mediocre newspaper coverage of Wikipedia's internal workings, I think that The Independent deserves kudos for some actual quality independent journalism. As for The Express, the less said, the better. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:13, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
• Is this controversy already WP:NOTABLE enough to have its own article? Unless one already exists and I missed it. Probably too soon though. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:07, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

• Grant Shapps victim narrative is less interesting than his willingness to comment on something he doesn't understand. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:28, 4 September 2015 (UTC).