Such enthusiasm to update the popular online encyclopedia is not uncommon. "I get all my news from a large online forum," one user commented on the discussion page for Smith's entry. "Whenever they say someone's dead, I rush to Wikipedia to edit their article . . . But I've always been too late. Why is it that scientific news takes so long to be made public, but when somebody dies everyone flocks to it? We're all just a bunch of necrophiles, aren't we?"