Ben Yates stated for the record:
Still, someone wrote into boingboing with the following:
"I can't say who I am, but I do work at a company that uses Wikipedia as a key part of online marketing strategies. That includes planting of viral information in entries...."
How well can wikipedia protect itself against this unfamiliar sort of systemic bias?
Check, delete, publicize, ban, lather, rinse, repeat.