On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
But if the sources say something, nothing reliable disagrees, and you say "Well, but I -know- that's not correct...", then you are not a reliable source. Write your own source or ask them to correct.
However, I will use my editorial judgment to remove something from an article if I can confirm it is a gross error of fact, prior to getting any correction printed or anything like that. I suspect in the vast majority of cases it is either not that definitive an error or not that important, though; examples of where it is include BLP concerns - we'll rarely keep something in the article if the subject claims it is not true unless our sources are very good.
-Matt