Yeah, the funny thing is that the quote has been removed from Wikipedia but it will live longer in the print versions of the various newspapers. Wikipedia was what it was supposed to be - imperfect but self-healing. The supposed alternative to Wikipedia, "real scholarship", failed entirely at being better than Wikipedia and indeed was shown to be worse.

Also, a journalist did not have to avoid Wikipedia to do a better job, they just had to use to the history feature and see the pre-death entry.