[WikiEN-l] Proposal for simplified credentials model

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

William Pietri wrote

> charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:
> > 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).
> >   
> 
> I don't know that anybody has suggested it was a *high* academic 
> profile. My point was more that being a full professor has a social 
> standing both in the academic world and in the population at large. If 
> you compare with a situation where Essjay claimed falsely to be a 
> garbage collector or a busboy in an all-night diner, you'll see what I 
> mean. We wouldn't be having this problem.

OK, but my point was that 'especially with professors' is entirely misdirection. 

Charles

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