Farah's outrage is due to an unknown party repeatedly editing the opening line of his biographical entry on the collaborative online encyclopedia to read: "Joseph Francis Farah is an Evangelical Christian American journalist and noted homosexual of Lebanese and Syrian heritage."

Wikipedia, Farah wrote in a Sunday WorldNetDaily column, is "not only a provider of inaccuracy and bias. It is a wholesale purveyor of lies and slander unlike any other the world has ever known."

Any person can edit an entry on Wikipedia, hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which contains over 2.6 million entries in English. Wikipedia does have a system for flagging content as inaccurate, but it also warns that its pages, especially newer ones, can sometimes display inaccuracies and vandalism before they are corrected.

"This is hardly the first time Wikipedia has slimed me," Farah wrote, calling it an "unreliable website run by political and social activists promoting their own agenda...A couple years ago, the 'editors' there claimed I had an affair with a prominent female syndicated columnist. Now they characterize me as a 'noted homosexual.' Neither one of these accusations has any basis in truth, of course. But you can see just how confused they are over there: Am I a heterosexual philanderer, or am I a noted homosexual?"

"I can't kill this beast alone," Farah said. "But with your help and the help of other people of goodwill and good conscience, we can defang this monstrosity."