It's nearly impossible for a company to correct blatant mistakes in a Wikipedia article.
Details about the soap opera where Wales and Wikipedia get most of the blame, in my opinion:
An interesting offer : get paid to contribute to Wikipedia - by Rick Jelliffe
Standards activist Rick Jelliffe is C.T.O. of Topologi Pty. Ltd, a company making XML-related desktop tools, and spends most of his time working on editors, validators and publishing-related markup. His main standards project currently is editing an upcoming ISO standard for the Schematron schema language, which he originally developed.
Battleground Wikipedia
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Microsoft in hot water over Wikipedia edits
hi, I'm the guy you're bashing today
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