[WikiEN-l] How Wikipedia works

[John Robinson]

>  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).

Anyone have some sort of solution?