It is officially addressed through the dispute resolution process. While the arbitration committee does not address content, this sort of "content" is probably not content that we would fail to address. As matters get more subtle, the problem becomes more difficult to address as we are not propared to rule on close questions of opinion or fact. Neutral point is view is expected to result in both views being fairly presented.
Fred
From: John Robinson john@freeq.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 00:22:10 -0500 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How Wikipedia works
If you were to add a sentence to the page saying "Jack London was also the author of 'Lassie Come-Home,'" I would probably spot it and remove it within a day or two. You could, of course, put it back. Then I would probably remove it again and message you saying "No, it's a great book but it was written by Eric Knight, not Jack London. We could use an article on Eric Knight, by the way." And that would probably be the end of it.
That's often (increasingly, lately) not the end of it, and this is a major problem with Wikipedia which I seldom see officially addressed (although it's widely griped about).
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