On 28 Jan 2007 at 08:42, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:

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.

And it isn't. Credit reporting agencies' reports are produced and distributed in a secretive, prorpietary manner, and don't include any external links section to direct readers to alternative views of the facts involved. None of this is true of Wikipedia articles.