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Welcome to the For the Record WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to responding to coverage of Wikipedia in the news media. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members!
This group exists to address factually inaccurate or sensationally misleading press. This includes stories that carry blatantly misleading headlines, or even flatly incorrect reporting. The goal in these cases is to contact the reporter and either have the mistakes formally corrected or, at least, ensure that they won't be repeated in future articles.
Dealing with the press requires a delicate balance. We must be prepared to respond to news stories quickly to be effective, but not at the expense of common courtesy and thoughtfulness in our responses.
This project inspired by, and much of its ideas taken from, Blake Ross and the similarly named For the Record project for Mozilla Firefox