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).
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.



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?