[WikiEN-l] Proposal for simplified credentials model

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

William Pietri wrote

> As the Chronicle of Higher Education wrote, "But the incident is clearly 
> damaging to Wikipedia's credibility -- especially with professors who 
> will now note that one of the site's most visible academics has turned 
> out to be a fraud."

I'm going to sound like a snob. Why would anyone think tenure at a private college in the mid-West in theology was any kind of high academic profile? Academics would know how to rate this (i.e. there are thousands of middle-aged guys in this general category).

Charles

-----------------------------------------
Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email
Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam