centime - 2:27 pm on Oct 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

Thanks for this thread, methinks a lot of us are commenting based on what we percieve to be our own self interest.

Afterall, most here are self published self edited bloggers , and generators of content

We need to believe that what we're doing has the moral high ground and the rights of the situation.

I use wikipedia a lot, but that use is always tinged with worry at the accuracy of the multitude of facts quoted in each article.

There are reasons why it costs lot of money for large textbooks and sensitive biographies to reach the shop shelf.

Its manifestly impossible, IMHO, for the lone blogger, or forum poster, or wikipedia type organisation to replicate what centuries of experience and litigation have wrought upon the formal/traditional publishing world

This is not to say that anyone has a lock on the future outcome of this particuler challenge