 A couple of weeks later, a "Newsday" sports writer reproduced the nickname in an article, and "with that act, the fake nickname became real".Seife pointed out that while Wikipedia, by some standards, could be described as "roughly as accurate" as traditional publications, and is more up to date, "there's a difference between the kind of error one would find in Wikipedia and what one would in "Britannica" or "Collier's" or even in the now-defunct Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia ... the majority of hoaxes on Wikipedia could never have appeared in the old-fashioned encyclopedias.