Well, then I hope they tighten up the identity checks but with respect to an individual's privacy, of course. This is what makes the environment interesting, that everyone's using real names.
As a reader I just don't like reading what the anonymites of the world have to say anymore. I'd like to know what serious people have to say about certain subjects. Who would edit the article about "cyberspace" and what would they write?
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Cyberspace
Whenever someone has something to say, and wants their name to be attached to it, they can go to Citizendium.
Chet
________________________________ From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:46:07 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia
2009/4/21 Chet Hoover chet.hoover@yahoo.com:
Here's why Citizendium is far better:
- It's more open... everyone's identities are known, there are no sockpuppets, there is none of the absurd overhead that anonymity entails.
The identities aren't generally verified, the only requirement is that you use a name which is plausibly a real one. It doesn't have to be your real name.
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