I found this interesting and it should be a warning to anyone that depends on sites such as Wikipedia to back their ideas. I utilize Wikipedia, mostly Answers.com, to gather general information -- knowing that some might be flawed, especially that collected by Answers.com from Wikipedia... For references purposes here is an Answers link to information about John Seigenthaler Sr.. Some excerpts from the article.
The case triggered extensive debate on the Internet over the value and reliability of Wikipedia, and more broadly, over the nature of online information.
Wikipedia is a kind of collective brain, a repository of knowledge, maintained on servers in various countries and built by anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection who wants to share knowledge about a subject. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have written Wikipedia entries.
Mistakes are expected to be caught and corrected by later contributors and users.
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