In a message dated 10/27/2008 10:33:09 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, arromdee@rahul.net writes:
Because common sense would indicate that someone who claims to be George Bush when fixing an article probably isn't. George Bush is a massively well known public figure who is likely to be a target for impersonation. We already have WP:NPF which makes this distinction, so it's not exactly a new idea that some people are more public than others.
I'm sure that if someone claiming to be George Bush had written an article for Edge, they'd have verified his identity too.>> ----------------------- So you think we should allow some non-verified people to fix their own articles, and others not. And where exactly do you draw the line on a case-by-case basis then? This particular case wouldn't count since Jaron Lanier is definitely a public person, by choice I might add.
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In a message dated 10/27/2008 10:33:09 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, arromdee@rahul.net writes:
Because common sense would indicate that someone who claims to be George Bush when fixing an article probably isn't. George Bush is a massively well known public figure who is likely to be a target for impersonation. We already have WP:NPF which makes this distinction, so it's not exactly a new idea that some people are more public than others.
I'm sure that if someone claiming to be George Bush had written an article for Edge, they'd have verified his identity too.>>
So you think we should allow some non-verified people to fix their own articles, and others not. And where exactly do you draw the line on a case-by-case basis then? This particular case wouldn't count since Jaron Lanier is definitely a public person, by choice I might add.
There's a fallacy in assuming that the only functional rule is one that is determined in advance, with no attention to specifics, and no room for judgment or nuance.
-Phil