The problem with wikipedia is that anyone can change those entries, and the dumb public tends to believe anything you put on the internet.
This happened to a friend of mine who had her name besmirched by a malicious wiki writer who was fired by her once upon a time in her previous career. She tried to correct the wiki entries after calling the original wiki entry slander and as a result, the owners of wikipedia decided to ban her from her own wiki entry.
She tries to correct the entry under a different name and is accused of sock puppeting.
Kind of ironic isn't it, that you can't even correct information about yourself on wiki, yet some random stranger can write whatever he wants about you.
This is why I always take what I read from wikipedia with a grain of salt. Anything written on there can be true, but don't trust it, because the chances of it being wrong is just as great.
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Date: 2012-11-28 09:41 pm (UTC)This happened to a friend of mine who had her name besmirched by a malicious wiki writer who was fired by her once upon a time in her previous career. She tried to correct the wiki entries after calling the original wiki entry slander and as a result, the owners of wikipedia decided to ban her from her own wiki entry.
She tries to correct the entry under a different name and is accused of sock puppeting.
Kind of ironic isn't it, that you can't even correct information about yourself on wiki, yet some random stranger can write whatever he wants about you.
This is why I always take what I read from wikipedia with a grain of salt. Anything written on there can be true, but don't trust it, because the chances of it being wrong is just as great.