[WikiEN-l] right of rebuttal (was: David is on Channel 4 tonight re MS issue)

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 28 Jan 2007 at 08:42, Steve Summit <scs at 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.

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