[WikiEN-l] Lies, damned lies, and statistics

[James Farrar]

2009/4/16 Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>:

> In fact, this is almost the same as the BLP and privacy abuses.  Sanger is a
> particular named individual that Wikipedia is making claims about.  He says
> the claims are wrong.  It's up to us to get them right, whether it "improves
> the encyclopedia" or not--and if getting them right doesn't improve the
> encyclopedia, what are we doing making *any* claims about *anyone's*
> founder status?

Oh, I'd agree. But (a) we won't settle the truth of the matter in yet
another discussion here, and (b) Sanger didn't post to the list to
improve Wikipedia; he posted here to bitch about Wikipedia and Jimbo
Wales, not necessarily in that order.