Ken Lay Dead; Wikipedia Confused

Wikipedia really isn't great as a source. While often it's very reliable, there's always that chance that the most recently edited item you are reading is inaccurate or incorrect. Still it's a great way of generally gaining some knowledge of things and it does have some nice information organization that is convenient. Now I've never personally used the editing feature but I think what they need is perhaps a sort of accountability loophole. For instance, require users to put in credit card information (for authentication purposes) when they create an account. This way if someone is an abusive editor, they can be banned not by their wiki account username, not by their ip address, but by their actually identity.

As for the death of Ken Lay, it was somewhat difficult to find out today in regards to what happened, which could be why the wiki post was being changed so much. The media itself was struggling on a real answer which would make the entry at 10:09 essentially correct. However I think all of the entrires are wrong. I personally believe that Ken Lay was killed by ninjas.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Mistakes, miscommunication, and misinformation happen in journalism as well.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10682163/

The next link is ironic I know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Sa...Media_coverage

Wiki's not really meant for breaking news stories. It's more of an information archive, and I mean archive in the sense of a place which historical documents are stored.

There's nowhere I can't reach.