Wikipedia dangers

[John BAILEY]

Somebody recently told me about a tertiary communications course
hereabouts where students are asked to create false wikipedia entries
and try to get them online. Culture jamming or something, I guess. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Ya Sam
Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2007 3:40 AM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Wikipedia dangers

I've never edited Wikipedia, but if I were to change the Pynchon
article, stating that he has written 'The Da Vinci Code', that act of
vandalism would be detected, the article restored and my IP blacklisted,
no? The only problem is that if there is a stupid student preparing for
a Pynchon class who would check the vandalised article before it is
fixed, he would go to class perfectly sure that Pynchon is the author of
the 'Da Vinci Code'.

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