From: Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com I'm reminded of another entity we love to hate: credit reporting agencies. One of the reasons we (justifiably) love to hate them is that they provide little or no mechanism to challenge the information they hold about us. Wikipedia should not be anything like a credit reporting agency.

???? It is only because of laws passed within the last ten years or so, certainly no credit to the bureaus, but... just for the record...

...everyone is entitled to get one free report every year from Equifax, Transunion, and Experian. (This has been true for at least ten years in Massachusetts, and has been true nationally for a couple of years).

I noticed a ludicrous error in one of them one year, found an online correction form, filled it out, clicked "send" or whatever, and it was fixed in the next report.