Wikipedia is a socialist’s encyclopedia. It is by design “written collaboratively by many of its readers” and “anyone can edit almost any page” ? regardless of expertise in the topical area.
Such a design invites socialist revision ? not to mention contributions from kooks, cranks and pranksters of all stripes (that is to say, it suffers from the same design flaw as taxpayer-supported “free” news sites open to “citizen journalists” to get around a presumptive “corporate bias”). Of course, someone may come along afterward and challenge or edit the kooks’ contributions, but in the interim readers not well-versed in the subject (presumably those include most of the readers; otherwise, why consult an encyclopedia?) would be misled. For instance, just in the past month, Wikipedia has listed both John Calipari and John Beilien as having accepted the men’s basketball head coach position at NC State.
I would therefore be exceedingly cautious about using Wikipedia as a source for anything; at best it could be used as a starting point for investigation into a topic.
All of the above is to say it’s no wonder the truth about Cuba caused such great upset over there.
