I want to talk about the New York Times article, "Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits."
I really don't understand why there is so much controversy about Wikipedia and it's users ability to change it's content. I think most of the people who spend any amount of time on the Internet know what Wikipedia is all about. If you know that a site's content can be changed at any time by anyone, why would you be so surprised when someone makes changes? If I found fictitious information on me, I would want to change it...wouldn't you?
Nevertheless, corporations changing negative facts on their Wiki-Page is a whole different issue. The fact that Corporate America wants to slant it's Wikipedia information to better their public image is only a testament to their own corrupt nature.
Personally, I've never considered Wikipedia a credible source of information. However, I have done enough research of my own to know that most of the information on the sciences can be trusted. I've been to http://www.encyclopedia.com/ and http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ (two sites considered to be credible sources of data) and have found that people copy and paste their information onto Wikipedia.
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