Just a note on Wikipedia
I'm always telling my English 131 students not to trust Wikipedia as a reliable source. Yes, I often turn to Wikipedia for information, but you have to always remember that the information there can be put up and changed by anyone at any time. Yesterday, I saw proof of this. When feminist theologian Mary Daly died two days ago, there was little news found on the internet covering it. Yesterday, I noticed that her Wikipedia entry had been updated with her death date, but that was one of only three sites I could find reporting her death. And, at the bottom of the first paragraph, the Wikipedia entry read, "Thankfully the bitch died on January 3, 2010." It didn't last long. I flipped over to the page where you can see the site's history, to see if I could figure out either how to remove it or how to report it. I achieved neither, and flipped back to the entry. It was gone. But the point is, for a brief point in time, that is how th...