Sinbad Rises From Wikipedia Grave

A Chicago Sun-Times article passed to us by an anonymous reader pointed out the fact that the comedian Sinbad is still alive. This is notable, only insofar as Wikipedia thought otherwise. "Rumors began circulating last weekend regarding the posting, said Sinbad, who first got a telephone call from his daughter. The gossip quieted, but a few days later the 50-year-old entertainer said phone calls, text messages and e-mails started pouring in by the hundreds. 'Saturday I rose from the dead and then died again,' the Los Angeles-based entertainer said in a phone interview." Based on the article he seemed fairly okay with the mixup: 'It's gonna be more commonplace as the Internet opens up more and more. It's not that strange.' Wikipedia didn't comment for the Times piece, nor has it contacted the entertainer about the incident.

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Re:WIki isn't news; neither is the Chicago Sun-Tim

[DogDude]

I agree. I think that real journalists writing a story about (one of many) wrong Wikipedia articles is akin to Stephen Hawking writing a paper disproving Creationism. It should be obvious to anybody with a brain that these things are true (namely Wikipedia is often wrong, and Creationism is part of a particularly bad fairy tale). It seems odd that an organization with a good reputation would even bother acknowledging something as absurd as Wikipedia. The fact that the Sun-Times would even print this gives Wikipedia much more credibility than it deserves.