The great thing about the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is that anyone can edit it…and the bad thing about the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is that anyone can edit it. At the same time the project invites members of the online community to share their knowledge and contribute their expertise, it also attracts the cranks, hooligans, and outright fraud come out of the woodwork to alter, falsify, and flat-out vandalize articles. The latest incident appears to have targeted the 50 year-old U.S. comedian Sinbad (real name David Adkins), when someone altered the Wikipedia entry on him to say he’d died of a heart attack the morning of March 14.
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