On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:26:41 -0700, Ray Saintonge
wrote:
I confess that when my wife and I are sitting in
front of the TV, and a
question arises from whatever we are watching, Wikipedia's relevant
articles become a first source of information on our laptops while we're
watching. When we do that we seldom feel the need to follow the sources.
One time I can recall that such a situation came up was during the
Super Bowl halftime a couple of years ago; somebody I was watching it
with started wondering how old Bruce Springsteen (the feature
performer there) was, so I grabbed my iPhone and looked it up through
a Wikipedia app. Unfortunately, the page had just been vandalized to
alter his birthdate to be 10 years earlier than it really was, so I
got a wrong answer.
Probably another Superbowl watcher who's halftime entertainment was to
vandalise articles about people he or she had just seen on the
television.
Carcharoth