From: Gurch <matthew.britton(a)btinternet.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:15:53 +0000
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)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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