On 09/03/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)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.