[WikiEN-l] Notability on the skfields

[Todd Allen]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 13/05/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> plenty of people that have gotten in trouble for lying about where they
>> went to school, and a -ton- of people that lie about their age.)
>>     
>
> The single most common specific OTRS complaint is "please correct my
> date of birth"... I can't offhand think of any who've asked us to
> correct which university they went to - at least, none where it might
> have been wishful puffery. (There have been a couple who wanted us to
> fix  that we had them down as attending a prestigious university they
> didn't, but I don't remember any the other way around)
>
>   
That actually illustrates the issue very well, though. If someone
contacts you saying "Hey, correct my article, I have a PhD from
Harvard!" do you just go make the edit, or do you request independent
verification?

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