There are plenty of reasons to fear Wikipedia.

In 2004, Exxon was busted for controversial edits about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Since 2007, WikiScanner has given corporations like Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Dell, EA, WalMart, and Nestle a punch in the gut by making their edits public. News of libel and defamation suits over Wikipedia content is common, and I routinely see marketers banned, ridiculed, and humiliated.

Last year, the Federal Trade Commission settled with a firm called Reverb Communications, ...