On 12/24/05, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
And it's arguably a fair point. But it's not what he's doing. He's "outing" people who have not identified themselves or been written about by third parties, and he's including material about them without checking that his sources are credible or that he's got the right person. We don't do that.
I think he believes we do. In his mind, we are to blame for everything, including malicious people who place falsehoods here - while we ourselves do NOT consider those people part of the project, but rather misguided if not its enemies.
In other words, he considers just the POSSIBILITY of defamation / inaccuracy enough to condemn Wikipedia.
Witness his frankly insane belief that we should not have an article about anyone, of any level of fame, who does not want one.
-Matt