On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:56:00 -0500, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
What Essjay's case suggests, which is striking, is that the safeguards of not letting expertise be the sole reason for something and of still taking seriously arguments against experts, particularly when they cite source are actually all we need in order to be able to deal with being respectful towards claimed experts and take seriously their critiques of articles.
Yes, exactly that. But we have a residual issue, external to the matter of edits, which is that Essjay has a number of trusted positions and seems to have lost the trust of a significant proportion of the Wikipedia community. That is primarily Essjay's problem, not ours, of course.
Guy (JzG)