Wikipedia can be a good place to go real quick-like if you want to grab a bit of trivia for your blog posts. If you are making a ruling from the bench or writing a journalistic piece of any serious nature, not so much.
Why?
Because anyone can change what Wikipedia presents as gospel truth. So, for example, if you don't like his brand of conservatism, you could call Joe Farah a queer and it would be just fine until he said something about it in an article on his news zine.
Somehow this is a surprise? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
Come on people, the Internet is grown-up enough now, with powerful search engines like Yahoo! and Google, you can do your own primary research in some cases without ever leaving the butt-shaped depression in your chair! Let us be quite clear about this:
Wikipedia is the EXACT SAME THING as asking a bum on the street (who says he's knowledgeable about ________) what he thinks.
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