Bad information on Wikipedia ?

Have you ever seen false or misleading information on Wikipedia ? I am very curious about that.
Please give specific examples, in any subject area, not just general opinions of why it is or is not good. Why did you think it was wrong ?

Yes in a town I used to live in, I looked it up and it said the main attraction is the Anglican Church.

Not only did this contradict an earlier paragraph about main attractions, it's actually a primarily Catholic town. I also don't think a church can be a main attraction unless it has historic value - not an ordinary church in a country town.

I guess someone was creating mischief for their own amusement or was trying to advertise their church's programmes.

I haven't personally witnessed any false info, BUT I have heard of some. It made news a while back that on Wiki someone had posted that Sinbad (comedian) had passed away. I would research anything found on Wiki before passing it along.

I remember reading Mr. T's biography on wikipedia about a year ago. It said he train with ningas and went to the moon. obviously someone was messing with it.

I haven't seen bad information yet, but 98% of info are safe. Wiki has ways to prevent bad items.
It can also warn you about spoilers.

Considering the amount of information posted on wikipedia, I would say it is surprisingly accurate.

Well in the news a few months ago, there was this English village that had loads of insulting comments on it. It was corrected but it proves anyone can mess about with it.

In the future use encarta-its much more accurate.

This is not the easiest question to give specific examples to, mostly because in many cases false information gets fixed by editors, in many cases only a few minutes after the error was commited (whether by chance or intention).

Wikipedia is in a continuous state of change ... it is always being edited by various contributors.

Several times I've seen random stuff posted in there, but it's just vandalism and usually is gone after a few minutes.

there can be false info because any one can put info on there

Only when I actually look it up... sometimes I get curious as to how much an article that I'm using has been vandalized in the past. So I look up the article's revision history (you can do that even without an account, which I don't have). I look at the revisions that are marked "vandalism" which means that someone messed with it but someone else found it and reverted it. Examples? Well, once for fun I started looking up manga characters and I found that one had been vandalized - but it hadn't been noticed. I had to go back to a page before the vandalism and replace the paragraph that had been deleted. Another time, I was looking up vandalism on the Susan B. Anthony article and I found one revision that anyone could clearly tell was wrong. It said something about her being Chinese and having 49 siblings. Sometimes people like doing weird things for no reason at all. I usually use other sites to confirm info.