On 3/5/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
- Making up professional credentials is prohibited, and may result in
a ban. (This may or may not be covered by existing policy, but judging from the Essjay case, it is probably not sufficiently clear.) This is independent of whether or not the user asks for credentials to be verified. We may investigate claims that are dubious when they are pointed out to us.
No. No community support for this and appears to be policy cruft. Better to go with. "makeing up credentials mad result in bad things happening please don't".
I don't think community support can be gauged fairly from the response to the Essjay situation. Essjay was a highly respected contributor, and many were inclined to respect and defend his desire to create a fake identity without an informed debate about the nature of credentials, and why it is important that we treat such statements with care.
I believe this debate needs to take place now, independently of the Essjay incident.
Oh man please no. Way too buracratic. People wanting to avoid it will would have to remove such claims even when true before running for adminship which wont look good.
Why won't it look good? I don't believe there's a problem with removing claims, or perhaps adding an {{UnverifiedCredentials}} template.