Christiano Moreschi wrote:
From: Ray Saintonge wrote
George Herbert wrote:
There are also legitimate disagreements about the equivalents of
"fundamental pillars"; Larry clearly believes that anonymity and levelling the expert/non expert playing field are bad for any project, and took the cause and effects of the Essjay incident as an example of some of that.
From the viewpoint that having people fake credentials is bad, anyone
looking at Wikipedia as-is has to conclude that we're pretty close to fundamentally and structurally broken.
Whatever might be said about the honesty of Essjay's self-representation, not much has been said to challenge the scholastic validity of his information.
Not really fair, several people exhaustively combed through Essjay's content contributions, checking for dubious material. He only made 300 of them, anyway.
What does fairness have to do with it. Your comment essentially substantiate what I said about Essjay. If Larry wants to draw unwarranted inferences from what he sees happening on Wikipedia there is nothing unfair about pointing that out.
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