Not the News: The Race to update Pope Francis’s Wikipedia Article Upon His Death

One of the many things that "Wikipedia Is Not" is The News. The policy in question states that Wikipedia is not for original reporting, ephemeral news items, bios of everyone who appears in a media report, or (and especially) celebrity gossip. In practice, this is a principle that is routinely violated. Whole classes of "noteworthy" events get articles as soon as news reports come out, absent any…