A "Flawed" and "Irresponsible" research tool.
He went on to describe Wikipedia as a "flawed and irresponsible research tool". Wikipedia has since removed the entry and now requires users to register before they can create articles. This, in turn, should make it easier for the 600 volunteers to edit content, he said. "In many cases the types of things we see going on are impulse vandalism," he said. In an opinion piece for the USA Today, where Mr Seigenthaler was the founding editorial director, the 78-year-old journalist claimed that only one sentence in his Wikipedia biography was correct - the fact that he was Robert Kennedy's administrative assistant in the early 1960s.
Prominent journalist John Seigenthaler described as "false and malicious" an entry on Wikipedia implicating him in the Kennedy assassinations.
When he phoned Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, he was told there was no way of finding out who wrote the entry.
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Wikipedia may be flawed , Wikipedia may be incorrect , but the List Of Algorithms it provides is a boon for programmers
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