William Pietri wrote
As the Chronicle of Higher Education wrote, "But the incident is clearly damaging to Wikipedia's credibility -- especially with professors who will now note that one of the site's most visible academics has turned out to be a fraud."
I'm going to sound like a snob. Why would anyone think tenure at a private college in the mid-West in theology was any kind of high academic profile? Academics would know how to rate this (i.e. there are thousands of middle-aged guys in this general category).
Charles
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charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
William Pietri wrote
As the Chronicle of Higher Education wrote, "But the incident is clearly damaging to Wikipedia's credibility -- especially with professors who will now note that one of the site's most visible academics has turned out to be a fraud."
I'm going to sound like a snob. Why would anyone think tenure at a private college in the mid-West in theology was any kind of high academic profile? Academics would know how to rate this (i.e. there are thousands of middle-aged guys in this general category).
I don't know that anybody has suggested it was a *high* academic profile. My point was more that being a full professor has a social standing both in the academic world and in the population at large. If you compare with a situation where Essjay claimed falsely to be a garbage collector or a busboy in an all-night diner, you'll see what I mean. We wouldn't be having this problem.
William