[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 42, Issue 226

[Daniel P. B. Smith]

> From: Steve Summit <scs at 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.