[WikiEN-l] People editing their own Wikipedia articles.

[Sam Korn]

On 11/15/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> But what if an article contains a widely believed 'fact' that actually is bullshit.
>
>  eg,
>
>  Michael was born in Toronto in 1956 and moved to Atlanta in 1961.
>
>  But Michael finds the article and knows that he was born in Ottawa but his family moved to Toronto some months after his birth. Plenty of internet sites say Toronto but he knows for a fact that it is wrong. Can he correct that, or does he need to produce his birth certificate to correct an error about himself? lol

I suggest we say "unless there is some reason why we think he is
misleading us, believe him".  Unsourced accuracy actually is better
than sourced inaccuracy.  It's just that the wrong one conforms to
policy...

Sam