Remember when Robert McHenry, former editor of Encyclopedia Britannica interrogated the value of Wikipedia, basically saying that something like Wikipedia could never be trusted to be reliable? Well, since then, they have been busy increasing the reliability. Now, it seems the Encyclopædia Britannica isn’t so perfect after all:

A SCHOOLBOY with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest — the fifteenth — edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Lucian George, 12, a pupil at Highgate Junior School in North London, was delving into the volumes on Poland and wildlife in Central Europe when he noted the mistakes.

Ahh, the sweet taste of revenge. Check it out.

UPDATE: Check in the comments on more links regarding the fact checking and article validation happening @ Wikipedia.