The dangers of Wikipedia and defacing entries

I am a big fan of Monica Seles, the tennis player. I was reading this afternoon her Wikipedia entry when I noticed someone had written nasty stuff in her entry (see photo below).

wikipedia disfiguration of monica seles

To me, this is the danger of Wikipedia as a self-correcting informational mechanism. Granted, I fixed it as soon as I found out (and as soon as Gregg told me I could edit without even being an editor). Still, it’s scary to think that anybody can deface the Wikipedia entry of anyone.

Comments (1)

BethMay 23rd, 2010 at 10:00 am

Wait, you didn’t know that you “didn’t have to be an editor” to change a Wikipedia entry? How did you think it worked?

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