On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Sam Blacketer <sam.blacketer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have to report that I always believed the confusion
over Jimmy Wales'
birthdate to be a covert and ingenious attempt to demonstrate to the
community the need to use the facts given in reliable sources, and not to
prefer what might be honestly expressed views but which are not supported by
reliable sources.
I don't know about ingenious. Anyone who knows Wales and his
predilection for making misleading statements which are nonetheless
literally true (a la a hero/heroine in an Ayn Rand novel) would have
figured out what he was doing quite readily. And then admonished for
not "assuming good faith" when they pointed it out.