Wiki Fanboy might want to read this.

[Mucho]

Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar

 

[nakedfrog]

Well, fact checking is never a bad idea.

 

[Phoenix86]

OMG, shocker. A DB, who lets the public edit it, has errors.

In other news, JFK was shot.

edit:

In the end, Mr. Seigenthaler decided against going to court, instead alerting the public, through his article, "that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool."

Mr. Wales said in an interview that he was troubled by the Seigenthaler episode, and noted that Wikipedia was essentially in the same boat. "We have constant problems where we have people who are trying to repeatedly abuse our sites," he said.

Still, he said, he was trying to make Wikipedia less vulnerable to tampering. He said he was starting a review mechanism by which readers and experts could rate the value of various articles. The reviews, which he said he expected to start in January, would show the site's strengths and weaknesses and perhaps reveal patterns to help them address the problems.

Having wiki note the author of the entry isn't a wholly bad idea, but equally as fallible. Who's going to verify the author's credentials? Who's to say someone intentionally entering bad info into wiki will be stopped by this? It's not like they will use the same username...