[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[Fred Bauder]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Larsen <larsen.thomas.h at gmail.com>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 6:38 pm
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium
>
> It is my understanding that Citizendium requires users to submit a
> brief biography (a) to help other authors and editors know with whom
> they are working and (b) ensure accountability (a biography in
> addition to a real name can be used to almost perfectly identify a
> person).
>
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>
> I don't see that at all.
> In my biography I write : "I was first a world-known plastic surgeon,
> but then I decided to go into soft porn.  After that I wrote 12 books
> on nematodes."
>
> How does that identify me?  You can write anything you want.  Wikipedia
> also has a biographical area (your user page), but they don't compel
> you to fill it out.
>
> I wonder if anyone can name any other website at all, that requires you
> to fill out a biography before they will allow you to log in?  I don't
> mean check boxes and short fields (like city, birthdate, etc), I mean a
> free-form field.
>
> This is the first time I've ever encountered a site, that requires you
> to fill in a free-form field, then has a human read that field, and
> decide on the basis of that, whether or not they will grant you access.
>
> Will Johnson

Linkedin has procedures like that. If you say you are with a company they
will insist on an email message from some account at the company.

You chose to play an ass on Citizendium and were treated like one.

Fred