On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Sam Blacketer sam.blacketer@gmail.com wrote:
I have to report that I always believed the confusion over Jimmy Wales' birthdate to be a covert and ingenious attempt to demonstrate to the community the need to use the facts given in reliable sources, and not to prefer what might be honestly expressed views but which are not supported by reliable sources.
I don't know about ingenious. Anyone who knows Wales and his predilection for making misleading statements which are nonetheless literally true (a la a hero/heroine in an Ayn Rand novel) would have figured out what he was doing quite readily. And then admonished for not "assuming good faith" when they pointed it out.