Wikipedia Reports Sinbad’s Death

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The online encyclopedia announced the actor Sinbad’s death on his Wikipedia entry, unfortunately for Wikipedia, he’s not dead. Oops. The actor took it in stride.

The St. Petersburg-based company, which describes itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," leaves it to a vast user community to catch factual errors and other problems. Apparently, someone edited it to say Sinbad died of a heart attack. By the time the error was caught, e-mail links of the erroneous page had been forwarded to hundreds of people.
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People amaze me when they take something from wikipedia and run with it... lol
 
I love Wiki. I wish retards would stop screwing with it.
 
Maybe they were wishing he was dead or talking about his career. :)

Actually I like him, and the attitude he took about it, is the right one.

"When asked if he was upset about the mix-up, Sinbad, whose real name is David Adkins, just laughed.

"It's gonna be more commonplace as the Internet opens up more and more. It's not that strange," the "
 
SpeedRunner said:
I love Wiki. I wish retards would stop screwing with it.
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That's the whole problem with the concept, though. Wikipedia permits anyone (except, interestingly, the people who are the subject of such pages) to input basically anything they want, and operates under a false (IMO) assumption that the toothpaste can be put back in the tube once that happens.

I have no problem using Wikipedia to give me ideas on where to go for research on a subject, but I give it (all by itself) no value as a citable resource.
 
Just wait till they falsely report Lorenzo Lamas's demise.
 
I'm kinda curious now.

What if you edited the Mohamed wiki entry? Would it incite riots? I mean, people take everything on wiki so seriously...
 
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