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I'll back up Roger's comment - it's as reliable as any encyclopaedic source and I've personally found it quite accurate. Wiki does seem to have quite good admin. I've followed in spare moments more than one story of some egomaniac using Wiki for "promotion", only to be severely slapped down. The other advantage of Wiki is that it has entries on things and people who never make it to Britannica. Interesting this amateur/professional status - a hot topic among arts bloggers, who are often derided as uninformed amateurs, unlike their paid equivalents who are, therefore, more authoritative. Doesn't always work that way. And there's a lot of cross-over - quite a few "professional" critics are bloggers. I do get riled by the columnists who claim that bloggers are all spelling-challenged acronymic teens on MySpace, since they clearly haven't trawled the blogging world very deeply. But there we are. Like everything else on the internet, blogs are both good and bad. All best A -- Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com