I link to Wikipedia quite a bit on this blog so I thought I should post this piece of news about the online encyclopedia. Although it has been doing it behind the scenes in certain cases for quite some time now, there will be a change in the way Wikipedia treats the editing of articles about living people. It has publicly announced that it will start imposing a layer of editorial review to these articles to reduce the amount of misleading or false information included in them. This had been in the works for quite some time now.
A quote from the article, "We are no longer at the point that it is acceptable to throw things at the wall and see what sticks." MICHAEL SNOW, chairman of the Wikimedia board, the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs Wikipedia, on steps to impose editorial review on articles about living people.
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