[WikiEN-l] Correction to New Yorker Article

[Rob Smith]

On 3/1/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>  Why *does* it
> matter whether a pseudonym's user page says untrue things? It's
> intrinsically unverifiable, after all.
>
> My hypothesis is that it depends on whether the information influences
> other people in course of our work. Even though we're supposedly all
> about the content and not who adds it, we still factor in what we think
> we know about the editor.


Let's take 'em at their word, then, "I've been pretty upfront about using
disinformation"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay/Archives/52#Profiles_don.27t_mesh
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