Pynchon research on the web

[Tim Strzechowski]

I'm not a big fan of Wikipedia for this very reason.  While it's useful, it 
remains unreliable.  It's good for quick definitions and explanations, but 
it's not a sound scholarly source.  Too many common schmoes (compared to 
academic schmoes) can edit the entries.

I believe there were issues last year when a college student cited faulty 
information from a Wiki entry.





>I missed this particular detail in the flood awhile
> back, but did I understand correctly that jbor
> actually changed the Wikipedia entry on Pynchon to
> reflect his claim - now proven false, or at the very
> least thoroughly ambiguous and untrustworthy -  that
> Melanie Jackson denied the Playboy Japan interview was
> authentic?
>
> If so, that's exactly the kind of problem that
> Wikipedia needs to solve if it's going to be a
> trustworthy source.
>