I thought anybody can edit Wikipedia?

Then why would it be such a big deal when the US govt or Australian or the vatican edits entries?

There have been cases where companies have edited their own entries to remove any criticism of their policies or products, and this is counterproductive to Wiki's mission. There is a big difference between removing something that's not true from a page and sanitizing a page to appear more appealing, and I imagine that the governments you were talking about were removing criticism of themselves from the page and therefore breaking the rules. Wiki also makes it very clear that they are not an advertising service, so that's part of it.

Bias.

bias.

They are allowed to edit it, but they are abusing the system by adding bias or untrue information.

Or like Pepsi did, removing information about the health effects.

It isnt ok for anybody, even privat citizens to post false info

I dunno. Seems that there is a non-institutional bias in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is meant for facts only and Wikipedia employees monitor the edited information every minute to make sure that it is true.

Becasue wiki is supposed to be a non biased place to get information.

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:C...

Do you have examples?

What did those governments add or edit?

In some cases, they might be the best source.
For example, who but the Vatican could justify persecuting Galileo? And from their point of view, everything they say is fundamentally true.

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