Teaching students about being careful about sources -- online or not -- is good of course. But he should just have shared a paper about or something like that.

Teaching students about being careful about sources -- online or not -- is good of course. But he should just have shared a paper about or something like that. I agree with Wales; deliberately putting untruths on Wikipedia is really anti-social behavior. Wikipedia, however imperfect, is a really great asset -- people using it for their own little experiments like this is really doing everyone a great disservice, and I can only imagine how many others he has inspired to do similar things.