On 4/21/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Look around. There are millions of websites (blogs, home pages, YouTube videos, etc) out there with libelous material, much of it blatantly false, out there for anyone to see.
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Again: Wikipedia is not the worst place on the Internet from a perspective of actually protecting people's rights not to be attacked or slandered, or at least to get it fixed if they are. It's arguably close to the best place on the Internet from those perspectives.
Wikipedia is dramatically different from those other sites and types of sites. Not only are Wikipedia pages about a subject far, far more prominent than some random blog post or homepage about a subject, but the Wikipedia pages are presented as fact, and not just the opinion of some random guy with a Myspace.