[WikiEN-l] Accountability: bringing back a proposal I made nearly 2 years ago

[Stan Shebs]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 3/5/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>   
>> There are two parts to the suggestion: 1) marking some statements with
>> a "verified credentials" tag, and 2) a "policy of gentle (or firm)
>> discouragement for people to make claims like those that EssJay made,
>> unless they are willing to back them up".
>>     
>
> I'm cross-posting this to wikipedia-l and foundation-l, because it may
> very well become a Foundation-level issue at some point.
>
> I would support the following:
>
> 1) Any user can ask for his or her professional credentials to be verified.
>   
In principle this makes sense; but limiting to verifiable bits is going 
to make it a short list - degree X, licensed Y, employed by company Z 
between dates W. How do you verify a carpenter, or "freelance 
consultant", aka euphemism for being unemployed? :-)

Stan