who needs 10,000 monkeys when one can do? :) On a more serious note this is the big downside to Wiki's - we have become far too casual in trusting "the crowd"

who needs 10,000 monkeys when one can do? :) On a more serious note this is the big downside to Wiki's - we have become far too casual in trusting "the crowd" will take care of basic vetting. In this case it happened to be a crowd of one until someone else noticed. That should be a reminder to everyone. For all the fun poked today of old school resources like the Encyclopedia Britannica, they at least had a reputation to defend and thus were highly incentivized to be vigilant with quality control. And even then stuff still slipped through.