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Errors in Wikipedia Considered Harmful
I have just spent the whole morning battling with a bug in an RTF encoding class in one of our applications. For some reason, Unicode characters were causing Microsoft Word to either consider that the file was corrupted or else to drop characters seemingly at random.
It turned out that the reason for the bug was that I was using some incorrect information on Wikipedia. Now I must confess to being a bit of a Wikipedia fan, but it turns out that this particular article omitted some important information, as I discovered on a closer reading of the MSDN documentation.
Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, I have corrected it, but it just goes to show that if you rely too much on the information that you get there, you can run into trouble.
Posted at 13:38 in Miscellany 
Welcome to my website. My name is James McKay and I am a
web developer from Horsham, West Sussex, UK.
00:49
-I tried to send this using your form, but it kept telling me “message body required” - I don’t get it.-
Just wanted to say thanks for a recent edit you made to an article on Miss Kathryn Kuhlman. Im not very profficient in Wikipedia and you did an excellent job at bringing a little more balance to that article stating exactly what I wanted to had I had a clue!!! - so thanks!