Wikipedia: Comedian Sinbad dies ~ Sinbad: I'm still alive

Wikipedia falsely reports Sinbad's death

Associated Press

MIAMI - Actor-comedian Sinbad had the last laugh after his Wikipedia entry announced he was dead, the performer said Thursday. Rumors began circulating Saturday regarding the posting, said Sinbad, who first got a telephone call from his daughter. The gossip quieted, but a few days later the 50-year-old entertainer said the phone calls, text messages and e-mails started pouring in by the hundreds.

"Saturday I rose from the dead and then died again," the Los Angeles-based entertainer told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

The St. Petersburg-based company, which describes itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," leaves it to a vast user community to catch factual errors and other problems. Apparently, someone edited it to say Sinbad died of a heart attack. By the time the error was caught, e-mail links of the erroneous page had been forwarded to hundreds of people.

A note on Sinbad's Wikipedia page Thursday night said the site has been temporarily protected from editing to deal with vandalism.

Wikipedia was created in 2001 as a Web research tool. It has more than 1.6 million articles, contributed by members of the public.

A telephone call and an e-mail left for Wikipedia were not immediately returned Thursday night.

When asked if he was upset about the mix-up, Sinbad, whose real name is David Adkins, just laughed.

"It's gonna be more commonplace as the Internet opens up more and more. It's not that strange," the Los Angeles-based entertainer told the Associated Press in a phone interview.

Sinbad, who is currently on the road doing stand up, said he hasn't received an apology from the Internet site. He has appeared in the films, "Houseguest," and "Jingle All the Way."
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Wow... glad that he's not dead. Sinbad is a really good comedian. He cracks me up, and doesn't have to use a foul mouth to do it.

I find it funny, and by funny I mean fuckin' retarded, that a misprint on an online fake encyclopedia makes the news.

I'm going to edit the article on the Civil War so the South wins. Wonder if people will freak out.

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Exactly... if you KNOW that it can be edited, by ANYONE... then look on CNN, or something else online, and find out if it's true. SHEESH!!!

That would be funny as hell... to alter some history stuff.

Hey, can you alter something on Hitler... make him look like some fluff boy?!

Haha, that would be excellent. Most controversial topics are protected though because people go in and deface it.

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Yeah, that's right... I guess that they would change that stuff up, wouldn't they? Could you see some kids report... about how Hitler was taking people in for his own pleasure!? And then, there were the animals. Gods... some parents would flip!!! LMAO

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I'm going to edit the article on the Civil War so the South wins.
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Watch yer step Yankee. :tick:

Hey... watch who you're calling a Yankee, you Rebel.

well in all honesty he could have been dead and i don't think anyone would have know the difference. I haven't heard anything from this dude in years.