Steven Colloton

“ The BIA did not adopt the entirety of the IJ’s reasoning for rejecting Badasa’s claim. Rather, the BIA acknowledged that it was improper for the IJ to consider information from Wikipedia in evaluating Badasa’s submission on remand, and the government does not dispute [*3] that conclusion here. Wikipedia describes itself as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” urges readers to “ [f] ind something that can be improved, whether content, grammar or formatting, and make it better,” and assures them that “ [y] ou can’t break Wikipedia,” because “ [a] nything can be fixed or improved later.” ”

“ On remand, the DHS submitted several documents designed to explain the purpose of a laissez-passer, and argued that the document did not establish identity and nationality, but rather was “simply the granting of the authorization for an alien to travel to or from that country.” ”

“ Wikipedia: Researching with Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia (last visited August 7, 2008) . Other articles, the site acknowledges, “may become caught up in a heavily unbalanced viewpoint and can take some time – months perhaps – to regain a better-balanced consensus.” Id. As a consequence, Wikipedia observes, the website’s “radical openness means that any given article may be, at any given moment, in a bad state: for example, it could be in the middle of a large edit or it could have been recently vandalized.” ”