My guess is that Wiki will apologize and make the corrections as we speak.
The Wiki top brass are not fools, even if a few of their editors are complete idiots (not naming anyone in particular, of course :-) .and there are some precedents for big judgments From: Daniel Rocha <http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=806&cpage=10#comment-708958> May 31st, 2013 at 2:53 PM TO OUR READERS, REGARDING WIKIPEDIA: I MUST AGAIN GIVE THIS INFORMATION: WIKIPEDIA, AFTER THEY WROTE US ( BY TOM CONOVER) THAT THE PAGE HAD BEEN CORRECTED, TODAY AGAIN I SAW ON WIKIPEDIA THE FALSE INFORMATION THAT THERE IS A SUE PENDING AGAINST ME FOR EVENTS OF MY LIFE OF 20 YEARS AGO, FROM WHICH I HAVE BEEN ACQUITTED. TODAY AGAIN I TRIED TO CORRECT THE FALSE INFORMATION, BUT NOT ONLY THE CORRECTION HAS BEEN DELETED IN FEW SECONDS ( LESS THAN 1 MINUTE), BUT OUR IT GUY HAS BEEN BANNED TO WRITE AGAIN ON WIKIPEDIA. Woman wins $11.3 million in Internet defamation case South Florida Sun-Sentinel - October 12, 2006 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Broward County, Fla., jury has awarded a woman $11.3 million in an Internet defamation lawsuit that legal experts say could spur more courtroom battles over what's said online. Sue Scheff filed the lawsuit against Carey Bock in December 2003, after the Louisiana woman called her a "crook," "con artist" and "fraud" on an Internet message board for parents interested in alternative schools for troubled teens. One message landed on the Broward County PTA website, calling Scheff's referral company for such parents "an old, old scam." Legal experts say the Sept. 19 jury award may encourage more Internet-related lawsuits, particularly as message boards, blogs and social networking sites proliferate. Of the $11.3 million, almost half was awarded as punitive damages. "I think when people read about litigation and big awards, there is sometimes an inspiring effect and others seek to imitate that success," said Sandra S. Baron, executive director of Media Law Resource Center in New York City. But legal analysts warned that prospective plaintiffs shouldn't expect similar large awards, because of the circumstances surrounding Scheff's trial. Bock never showed up, meaning no defense was presented to the jury. "Having a freakish (award) number where the defendant is not really represented well or at all in front of the jury happens all the time," said Robert Rivas, a media lawyer of the Boca Raton, Fla., law firm Sachs, Sax & Klein. Scheff's attorney David Pollack, however, said he believes the jury award sends the message that those committing defamation or libel over the Internet cannot escape responsibility for their actions.
