From: Gurch matthew.britton@btinternet.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:15:53 +0000 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The boundaries of OR (contd)
Marc Riddell wrote:
Back to some basics of my argument, or proposal, or whatever it has become: I am not talking about 'experts'. If I see an edit has been made to an Article in WP I would like to be able go to that Article's History Page and see the 'source' (person) of that edit, with a User Name in Blue. Then, if I choose, I can go to that corresponding User Page and learn something about that editor - it really is that simple!
Er... am I missing something here? You *can* do the first part of that; and if the user chooses to provide personal information, you can also do the second. However, no matter how much you may wish to know such information, you cannot, and Wikipedia cannot, force every editor to provide a full biography and list of qualifications. Disclosure of such information is not required to contribute and never will be.
-Gurch
Gurch,
I "can" do that if the person has, in fact, created a User Page. As for the extent of the information, that should, of course, be left entirely to the discretion of the User - just something other than (quoting one I came across) "There, I created one, are you happy!?
Marc
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