
Originally Posted by
Darter
The thing about wikipedia is that newer articles can be edited by anyone. I could log in there right now and post that the entirerty of Barbara Striesand's 1980 quintuple-platinum album "Guilty" had been added to the official setlist. Just because it's there doesn't mean it's true.
For instance, I once added my friend's name to the list of chemical abrasives on wikipedia as a joke, because in a recent job-perfomance review his boss told him that he was "Too abrasive". It stayed there for about a month.
On older entries, however, you genereally get accurate and reliable information, and I have passed more than a few lazy workdays browsing through wikipedia's catalog.