UPDATE: As I was updating my blog here, the photo at Wikipedia has already been replaced with a authentic one of MM Lee. They sure work fast! 

Today, out of boredom I dropped by Wikipedia to see what is being written about Singapore’s history. To my surprise, in MM Lee’s Wikipedia entry, his photograph was replaced by that of Adolf Hitler’s.

It’s a rather mean joke I guess. I wonder what the authorities would do about it.

I hope they won’t ban Wikipedia!

Personally, I don’t think that was a very smart thing to do. All Wikipedia edits are logged along with the users’ IP addresses. So nobody can get away with defacing well-known persons’ biographies if legal actions are taken.

On the other hand, this shows us that Wikipedia, at the end of the day, can be a very unreliable source of information. The information provided may seem legitimate sometimes. However, we must bear in mind that just about anybody – whether an expert or novice, can make changes to any article.

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