On 3/29/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I know, let's just shut Wikipedia down!
That would TOTALLY solve all our problems.
This is the problem, of course. We've developed this way of operating--we make mistakes eventually we, we fix them, it doesn't really matter. If I write something slanderously untrue about some guy 2,000 years dead, who cares? But when it comes time to deal with real people, who apply for jobs, get searched for on google (that fascinating new form of contemporary voyueurism), or whatever else, a mistake that lasts a day can be incredibly harmful. And when we decide to put our "wiki philosophy", or whatever the hell it is that you're appealing to here, ahead of the concerns of the people our articles effect, we've created a project many of us don't want anything to do with. And over the last few months, it's become very clear to me that many Wikipedians have exactly that order of priorities.
I guess that's why they put exit signs on doors.