One of Legolas's FAs was
Madonna (entertainer) (T-H-L). He
nominated it in May 2010.
After Binksternet raised the alarm in early 2012, it was
demoted.
Here editors were concerned that Legolas seemed to have put words into Madonna's mouth:
...in that edit a vast amount of information was added, including the sentence With SongTalk magazine, Madonna explained that "isolated by fame and shaken by the failure of my marriage, I could only reach out to the stability of my family roots, and 'Keep It Together' is for that only." supposedly sourced by one of the references listed above and page 122 of the book Madonna: Like an Icon by Lucy O'Brien. The book is viewable on 'Look inside' option on Amazon.com, and there is nothing of the kind on page 122. Page 131 does however say There is the sense that Madonna, isolated by fame and shaken by the failure of her marriage, is reaching back to the stability of family roots. but that is written solely by the author, and not a quote from Madonna. I find the suggestion that an editor has fabricated references and a quote from a living person to be very troubling, and would suggest this is moved to another noticeboard. 86.186.68.76 (talk) 20:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
That item is actually mentioned in Wikipedia's
List of hoaxes. The write-up there says,
Paul Zollo wrote no such article title, and the volume and issue are not in keeping with the magazine's normal series.
Here is a case where Legolas seems to have passed off a substandard source as another, more reputable one, in order to be able to include the material:
At Get Together (Madonna song), Legolas2186 performed a "major expansion for GA" way back in July 2009. He added a link to an interview of Nathaniel Howe, a 3D animator and PR/branding artist. The link was to the "Drowned Madonna" fansite which is no longer working:
http://www.drownedmadonna.com/modules.p ... aniel_howe. The Wayback Machine has the interview here, archived from July 2007. Legolas misrepresented that Howe was interviewed by Madonna's official website Icon, but the link is to the fansite Drowned World, and the interviewer calls him- or herself "Drowned World", not Icon. Up to this point, the quote is accurate and the text from the website is accurately summarized, but the website is a weak source, arguably not reliable enough.
People rely on Wikipedia to a very large degree for pop culture trivia, and we usually concede that it's an okay source for that. But if Wikipedia has Featured Articles and Good Articles with quotes and interviews that are made up, on someone as prominent as Madonna, it may not be such a great idea!