On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:36:58 +0900, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I think we can keep the two issues separate: knowing who people are if they are in positions of trust is interesting and important, but quite different in some important ways from the issue of stating credentials.
Right, but then we get to the tricky bit: an editor, call him Jayess, comes along, stating he has a PhD in something-or-other, and people decide to ask him to *prove* it because he's relying on it to confer authority in content disputes. Do we have a "put up or shut up" clause?
That's the sticking point for some, I think - and there will be those who think it's useless without, and those who think it's evil with, so it's not an easy call.
Guy (JzG)