You just can't trust Wikipedia, can you...

[bjornolf]

Check this story out. I think it's pretty funny. Kid intentionally puts a false quote on a wikipedia page, and news sources around the globe pick it up and treat it as true without confirming the source. Oops!

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090512/ ... dia_hoaxer

[colchar]

Sadly, many undergrads don't get how unreliable Wikipedia can be and tend to use it for papers - at least for the initial research. Because it isn't permitted as a source they never cite it but I always seem to catch them when they do use it.