On 3/14/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Wikipedia editor happy). IMHO it would be perfectly
fine for Wikipedia
to accept such statements & corrections directly, and to refer to them
as <ref>correction/statement submitted by XX, ticket ID #123, received
...</ref>. The main issue here is verifying identity, but that could
be handled by trusted people who have access to the respective OTRS
queue.
It's a bit ugly, and very self-referential. Which is something we
normally try and avoid. Wikipedia tries to document the external
world, not itself...see WP:SELF.
However, it's probably an acceptable, if somewhat last-resort, solution.
Steve