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