Wikipedia's not perfect, but it's as solid as print encyclopedias, which are made by humans and subject to error-- not tomes of platonic truth. Obviously, the

Wikipedia's not perfect, but it's as solid as print encyclopedias, which are made by humans and subject to error-- not tomes of platonic truth. Obviously, the danger of untruths virally propagating is there and should be taken seriously. One would hope that few people are using Wikipedia for scholarly citations. Also, if you encounter mention of a college tradition on Wikipedia, you should be extremely suspicious, because most of those are apocryphal. That was one of my vandalisms that tended to "make it", since the existence of a college tradition is nearly impossible to refute. Some of them are still extant, despite being made in 2003-04.