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HankronStarting in 2000, I had a small newsletter about prints and photos. Most of the readers were learned and many were quick to point out my errors (They were 80 percent of the time correct!). I felt obligated to the readers to correct my errors in the following newsletter (I would have felt bad about myself if I let the misinformation stay as record). At one point I jokingly labelled the newsletter, "David's Weekly Correction and Rebuttal." After two consecutive newsletters were I made somewhat reasonable factual blunders, I thought to myself, "You know, this is getting kind of embarassing. Maybe I should get the facts straight before I publish them or not pubish them at all."
This also explains why, as far as authentication goes, I don't publish others' works unless I can verify it. I can live with getting the blame for my own mistakes, but am not willing to get the blame for others'.