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Wikipedia falsely reports Sinbad's death

Finally, something funny about Sinbad ;)

         

balam

3:04 pm on Mar 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Associated Press, via Yahoo! News: Wikipedia falsely reports Sinbad's death [news.yahoo.com]

The St. Petersburg-based company, which describes itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," leaves it to a vast user community to catch factual errors and other problems. Apparently, someone edited it to say Sinbad died of a heart attack. By the time the error was caught, e-mail links of the erroneous page had been forwarded to hundreds of people.

jecasc

5:23 pm on Mar 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Never heard of him. However his death lasted not more than 15 minutes according to the Wikipedia history.

jatar_k

5:33 pm on Mar 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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maybe he'll get an extra 15 minutes with a press release about

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"

hehe

abbeyvet

5:43 pm on Mar 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I never heard of him either - I thought you meant the sailor!

Great publicity for him. mmm.

bcolflesh

5:50 pm on Mar 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I assume the original edit came from him or his agent...

treeline

9:26 pm on Mar 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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His wife....

....forwarded it to his life insurance agent!

Hope they pay claims promptly.