Vanities

I stumbled across this one -- an article from The Independent on how much effort some journalists put into making sure their entries on Wikipedia are up to date and not tampered with. (Link to full article here.)

Stephen Glover points out:

My impression is that some journalists think about little else than the on-line encyclopaedia. Are they in it? If so, is their entry being tampered with by hostile forces? If they are not included, why not? Should they in that case write their own entries, or will this little act of vanity be exposed in a gossip column?

With all that journalists have to worry about today (making a living, writing relevant material) interesting they would be spending their time doing this.