Is someone at Wikipedia or Google a Tar Heel

[dukelifer]

Google "Duke University" and check out what it written under

Duke University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duke University is a low ranked community college located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day ...
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[YmoBeThere]

Someone already changed it back at Wiki, who ever did it timed it right so that when Google went out to the Wiki page it caught the CC comment.

[Indoor66]

Google "Duke University" and check out what it written under

Duke University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duke University is a low ranked community college located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day ...
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That type entry is why Wiki is often unreliable. Anyone can make changes.

[darthur]

They tend to be reverted very, very fast. There are many things for which wikipedia is absolutely the most reliable and most complete source you'll find.

[billybreen]

Google "Duke University" and check out what it written under

Duke University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duke University is a low ranked community college located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_University - 229k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

For the record, there's no one "at" Wikipedia in the sense that you mean. Anyone can edit, so crap like this happens frequently and is quickly reverted, as others have pointed out. Google is just linking to the most popular entry for "Duke University," and proper nouns almost always have a Wikipedia link as one of the top 4 or 5 hits.

[DukeUsul]

That type entry is why Wiki is often unreliable. Anyone can make changes.

On the other hand for many topics, wikipedia is an extremely well-researched collection of cited information. It's a fantastic starting point for researching. Let's take a nice benign article that won't get this thread moved to the PPB.... Plate Tectonics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics). 30+ nice citations at the end. If I knew nothing about Plate Tectonics, there's a great place for me to learn.

Contrast that to the other 4 entries in the top 5 Google search and.... well this one has 4 cites, the next one has zero, and two of them seem to be ads for books on the topic.