Wikipedia won't let Novelist Philip Roth correct error in post about his book

This is not surprising.  Wikipedia is a cesspool that collects the worst things that are written on someone or something, and many times the errors are impossible to correct.  From Fox News:

You can’t make this stuff up. 

Wikipedia refused to correct an error about a major work of literature, even after the error was pointed out -- by the author himself. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth penned the book “The Human Stain” about a college professor deemed a racist for an innocent comment he made in class one day, despite the character's secret, African-American heritage. The Wikipedia entry for the book incorrectly noted that it was inspired by the life of writer Anatole Broyard. 

But when Roth petitioned to have the mistake corrected, he was told he could not. Roth, the work’s author, wasn’t a reliable enough source. 

“When, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by the ‘English Wikipedia Administrator’ … that I, Roth, was not a credible source,” the literary lion wrote in an essay “An Open Letter to Wikipedia” in The New Yorker.  . . .