On July 19, 2010, Fair Isaac responded to an inquiry by creditscoring.com regarding odd, inconsistent claims about the FICO credit score distribution. Fair Isaac responded that its distribution chart was out of date and would be replaced. The Associated Press did not reply.
The FICO score company removed the chart, but has not replaced it, and that has made Wikipedia’s article Credit score (United States) unverified for months. In fact, it still states, “A FICO score is between 300 and 850, exhibiting a left-skewed distribution with 60% of scores near the right between 650 and799.[12]”
Wikipedia’s footnote #12 is a link to a page that supported the statement with a chart illustrating a bell curve distribution. However, there is no longer anything about 650 or 799 on the Fair Isaac page, so that eliminates Wikipedia’s verification of its claim about the distribution.
Meanwhile, the Wikipedians argue over crucial issues like cheap vs. inexpensive, and, of course, the lots/a lot controversy that was infinitely more important than correcting the distribution reference.
A previous error by Wikipedia regarding credit scores lasted for 654 days.
Wikipedia looks like an encyclopedia, but is really just a message board. Just ask Tyler.