This is exactly what matters. From what I can tell
Sanger wrote much of
Wikipedia's initialy policy - policy that lives on today in various
edited
forms. Not only was he key in coming up with the more formal guidelines
for
Nupedia, he personally wrote many of the informal guidelines that came to
be
used on Wikipedia. This is well documented on
archive.org and Wikipedia
itself.
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It seems clear that this initial idea was authored
and implemented by Sanger & Wales (2001?). It would be a grave injustice
to
just cite Wales (2001) if the idea was only part, or not even, his.
Sanger probably had the initial idea, but Wales listened to him. Wales
paid for the initial operation and supported the project financially for
at least a year, including paying wages to Sanger. Sanger came up with a
lot of policy, but Wales insisted on assume good faith and lived it.
Sanger himself might have torn the project up banning people if given his
way.
Fred Bauder