I just saw this in the Yahoo newspaper, and I thought to myself, "Self, what a great thing to show to people." And so, agreeing with myself, I take upon myself to show as many people as I can.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-apf-15201451.html?.v=1
The above link is a story of a Irish college student who decided to write a "poetic farewell" from a recently deceased French poet in an experiment to see if anyone noticed. No one did! Journalists around the world copied down his quote as real, and it went out into the world as reality.
The entire world used Wikipedia as a source of correct answers, and were: WRONG!!! When I taught English, I raved the problems of Wikipedia: Wikipedia is not checked! Wikipedia is a glorified blog site. Wikipedia is not the answer to your questions. All information on Wikipedia needs to be checked!
Wikipedia - Not the perfect encyclopedia. But obviously, a lot of journalist think so.
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