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| − | :Wikipedia bills itself as the “online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.”<ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia Main Page]</ref> Anyone with an [[internet]] connection can create a Wikipedia account and change any entry in Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia warns readers that “[t]he content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.”<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer Wikipedia Disclaimer Page]</ref> Thus, it is entirely possible for a party in litigation to alter a Wikipedia article, print the article, and thereafter offer it in court in support of any given position. Such a malleable source of [[information]] is inherently unreliable, and clearly not one “whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned.”<ref>Palisades Collection, LCC v. Graubard, 2009 WL 1025176, at *3 (N.J. Super. A.D. Apr. 19, 2009).</ref> |
+ | :Wikipedia bills itself as the “online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.”<ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia Main Page.]</ref> Anyone with an [[internet]] connection can create a Wikipedia account and change any entry in Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia warns readers that “[t]he content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.”<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer Wikipedia Disclaimer Page.]</ref> Thus, it is entirely possible for a party in litigation to alter a Wikipedia article, print the article, and thereafter offer it in court in support of any given position. Such a malleable source of [[information]] is inherently unreliable, and clearly not one “whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned.”<ref>Palisades Collection, LCC v. Graubard, 2009 WL 1025176, at *3 (N.J. Super. A.D. Apr. 19, 2009).</ref> |
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- Wikipedia bills itself as the “online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.”[1] Anyone with an internet connection can create a Wikipedia account and change any entry in Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia warns readers that “[t]he content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.”[2] Thus, it is entirely possible for a party in litigation to alter a Wikipedia article, print the article, and thereafter offer it in court in support of any given position. Such a malleable source of information is inherently unreliable, and clearly not one “whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned.”[3]
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- ↑ Wikipedia Main Page.
- ↑ Wikipedia Disclaimer Page.
- ↑ Palisades Collection, LCC v. Graubard, 2009 WL 1025176, at *3 (N.J. Super. A.D. Apr. 19, 2009).