Andrew Gray wrote:
On 13/05/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
plenty of people that have gotten in trouble for lying about where they went to school, and a -ton- of people that lie about their age.)
The single most common specific OTRS complaint is "please correct my date of birth"... I can't offhand think of any who've asked us to correct which university they went to - at least, none where it might have been wishful puffery. (There have been a couple who wanted us to fix that we had them down as attending a prestigious university they didn't, but I don't remember any the other way around)
That actually illustrates the issue very well, though. If someone contacts you saying "Hey, correct my article, I have a PhD from Harvard!" do you just go make the edit, or do you request independent verification?