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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Fake Wikipedia Post
Fake Wikipedia Post Fools Some in MediaI'm not surprised. This is exactly why I don't trust Wikipedia as a source for stuff that matters, and neither should any of you:
"I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Shane Fitzgerald said.
"I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up," Shane Fitzgerald said.I will concede not all information is untrustworthy on Wikipedia. Wikipedia did remove the bogus information fast. But the point is that people aren't checking if the stuff there is fact, they are just assuming it is, when at any given moment it really isn't!
"We always tell people: If you see that quote on Wikipedia, find it somewhere else too. He's identified a flaw," Jay Walsh said in a telephone interview from Wikipedia's San Francisco base.
As a note, I took all of this as fact from AOL's World News without checking. Ironic? Or just another example of the point Shane was trying to make...
Posted by: trekker9er : 3:58 PM 
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