Wikipedia

Wikipedia is once again paying the price for the anonymity it offers to millions of writers across the globe, who freely contribute to it. Following revelations that a prominent writer/editor, who wrote as 'Essjay', and who said he is a Professor of Theology at a private varsity is actually Ryan Jordan, a 24-year-old college drop-out from Kentucky, the open online encyclopedia is now planning on asking contributors who claim such credentials to take the pains to identify themselves.Last week, the magazine, New Yorker, blew the whistle on Jordan's deception, when it published an editor's note saying that a 2006 Wikipedia profile carried by the magazine erroneously described Essjay's purported academic resume, calling him a 'tenured Professor of Religion'.