Philip Roth recently publicly chided Wikipedia for publishing misleading information relating to his novel
The Human Stain.
According to a BBC account of the incident, Wikipedia administrators refused to correct the inaccurate entry, claiming "they required a second source." Incredibly, the author of a work of fiction was deemed insufficiently qualified to get the record about his or her own novel straight. Wikipedia's administrators have apparently come around, after this very public black eye, and amended the controversial claims
The novelist's open letter appeared in The New Yorker and has generated considerable media interest. Roth's crisp prose and cogent line of reasoning in this piece are a pleasure to read.
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