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Wikipedia’s accuracy damaged
Wikipedia’s accuracy was compared to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and formany topics (e.g.science) it seems to be very reliable. However, I discoveredthat some contributors were modifying Wikipedia on behalf a big, multibillioncompany. That incident damaged Wikipedia’s accuracy.If you reach the entry in Wikipedia for"EXPEDIA"you will find (sometimes)a section about "customer Feedback" that says :"As is common with large internet travel agencies, some customers havebeen unsatisfied with various aspects of Expedia.com products and services.Customer complaints include lost reservations, erroneous hotelaccommodations, poor customer service, and failure to post negative reviewsonline at Expedia.com ......'What is very interesting is that if you check another day the same entry, thesection about "customer feedback" will eventually (misteriously) dissapear.That means that someone is helping EXPEDIA to delete their negativeaspects from wikipedia.I had been following that entry for few days and I noticed that someone (Iswear it wasn't me) write that section in Wikipedia and someone else erasefrom there. That happened few times in the last month.What is more interesting is that the entry for Orbitz (although contains anegative section called "controversies" ) was not erased during the sameperiod of time.What is even more and more interesting is that someone in theFLYERTALK forum (I put the thread there) apparently found out that "The netblock thatthe user who is removing the entry is posting from is owned by Expedia (.I've brought this up on the article's talk page." . He or she put a note inWikipedia discussion :"Anyone notice that 199.3.115.254 who keeps removing the customerservice section is posting from Expedia.com SPRINTLINK (NET-199-3-115-0-1) 199.3.115.0 - 199.3.115.255I'm not saying that the section necessarily belongs, but that removal of uncomplimentary items by someone from the company looks fishy. --Alanhwiki 21:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)Retrieved from ""http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Expedia" Someone, the media or the authorities should investigates this. I'm notsaying EXPEDIA is doing this. But someone on behalf of EXPEDIA does. Myopinion is that people don't help big companies for free.What's yours ?
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This is the problem with a site like Wikipedia..

reply04 / 18 / 2007
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