On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Poe, Marshall wrote:
There is a more general consideration, tho: repeated notices in the *trusted* print press to the effect that WP is not trustworthy will drive people away. WP's reputation is on the line. So WP has both good legal and practical reasons to institute some sort of (let me just say it) formal editorial control over quality.
<cough> It isn't as though everyone is tiptoeing around that phrase.
There are solutions to improving WP's quality - particularly the quality of content seen by 99% of our readers and all of our serious mirrors - that are at once more effective and less controversial than 'formal editorial control'.
SJ