On 09/03/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
beyond content accuracy, going on as well -- if I really am a professor, why state that when anyone else can as well (and clearly get away with it pretty easily)? Why be associated with that kind of nonsense? Why be subject to possible distrust in the future (are you *really* a professor, or do you just say you are?) Professorship is hard-won in most cases, and most people don't take kindly to impersonation.
A lot of editors put their organisational affiliation on their user page, or even a link to their university or organisational web page, which is of course immediately verifiable.
But others don't want to put everything on their user page, precisely because of stunted obsessives like Brandt, or worse.
p.s. like essjay, I have an OTRS account. Does that mean that I could verify my own credentials under Erik's plan?
It all comes down to starting with the assumption that people are basically honest and not going to lie. As I said, after this Essjay disaster, *no one* of good faith is going to fib about their credentials to cover their tracks ...
- d.