“Tempers are running high in the principality of Wikipedia, that remarkable tract of cyberspace where, as in all good democracies, the citizens rule in theory, but in practice they are held a safe distance from the levers of power. The hubbub comes in the wake of an embarrassing bout of death-by-Wikipedia, in which two American senators were marked down as dead – on Inauguration Day, no less – when in fact both were alive and kicking.”