In a message dated 10/22/2008 5:07:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
tend to believe that spreading untrue information, no matter where it came from, is an irresponsible and at times immoral thing to do on a top ten website.>>
-------------------- And what exactly is "unTrue" about the idea that Britney Spears likes cheese ? Really it's quite silly.
Whether Jaron Lanier is a "director" or not is just as silly. What is being "a director" now so offensive as to raise your hackles and call me irresponsible and immoral for citing sources ?
You as well as anyone can weigh in on the appropriate policy board for Attribution/Verifiability and change the way we do things. But really, if we cite reliable published sources, we're doing our job. We don't need to feel the great burden of the world for citing things that turn out to be not accurate.
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