Why You Shouldn’t Believe Everything (Or Really Anything) You Read On Wikipedia, Part LXI
Ben Sisario, who wrote a 33 1/3 book on Doolittle, wants someone to correct the user-sourced encyclopedia’s entry on the Pixies, because he has evidence that the site has the year of the band’s formation wrong–and, thanks to people still being lazy using Wikipedia as something of an irrefutable source, that misstated fact is being spread far and wide. “I want to make sure this is all on the record for anyone to question or dispute, because I fear that—Wikipedia being what it is—if I simply correct the entries without explanation someone would just change them back 10 seconds later.” [CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC]
