On 07/03/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I feel that whatever a person places on their own, personal, User Page is their own business. What possible difference could it make to the quality of the real reason we are here: the encyclopedia.
The general idea is that your user page is your own space *for project purposes*. That's not clearly defined because anyone who doesn't get the idea of that couldn't have it explained by a rule.
I believe when honesty and integrity are taught from the very beginning of a personĀ¹s experience these values stay with them. These values are threatened only when the person believes their very survival is at stake. Within Wikipedia, if honesty and integrity were cornerstones of the very culture, and clearly necessary for a person to thrive within it, anyone not sharing those values, and exhibiting behaviors contrary to them, would not last very long.
That's why I think the idea of "and by the way be honest" as an important new rule or policy or guideline is just, um, what?
I just can't get my head around the idea of a default assumption other than honesty if you're going to work on an encyclopedia project.
- d.