Fake professor in Wikipedia storm (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.

The editor, known as Essjay, had described himself as a professor of religion at a private university.

But he was in fact Ryan Jordan, 24, a college student from Kentucky who used texts such as Catholicism for Dummies to help him work.

He has retired from the site and his authority to edit has been cancelled.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6423659.stm

[Ignacio Upton]

1. This is exactly why REAL professors should not allow students to use Wikipedia as a source

YOu should be able to use the websites that individual paragraphs give footnotes of, but not the information from the entry itself.