On 11/03/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
What problem are we trying to solve exactly?
Problem: Magazine interviews Wikipedia editor and believes his falsely claimed credentials. Solution: Caution media to check any credentials claimed by Wikipedia editors.
Well, there is also the problem of a Wikipedia administrator writing to professors as a fellow professor. That was pretty bad in my mind, and could have also led to a public black eye even if the media had checked credentials.
We have a hard enough time stopping Wikipedia administrators writing to professors as "a Wikipedia administrator", much less anything else...