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[FT2]

That's true. Confirming they are the person they claim to be, is highly
important. The manner of that confirmation may well need to be private
though.
Examples: - they might need to provide personal information to do so that
has no place on the public wiki. It may relate to smear, stalking, or
harassment, where there is a positive disincentive to provide the
identifying info on wiki. Finally, they may decide to meetsomeone in person
who can verify them from a well known photo in the media - how would that be
evidenced on the wiki?

As well, a claim that verification is less important for copyright than
other things will be disputed by some.

But this is in a way a side-track into process. The basic idea, that we
verify they are who they say, and then cite from their words, seems
feasible. How exactly we verify and what standard or public detail is
provided, is "something to discuss", there will be standards we can agree
are ok, standards we agree arent, so that comes down to consensus or WMF
picking a standard we feel comfortable with.

FT2



On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 4/23/2009 2:16:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ft2.wiki at gmail.com writes:
>
> You take  the OTRS volunteer's word that they
> have indeed checked the person granting  permission was in fact checked and
> ensured they were the copyright holder  as they claimed, or their
> representative.
> Same  thing.>>
>
>
>
> --------------------------
>
> That's a much more minor issue than a person claiming to be Barack Obama
> and then spouting a lot of nonsense just on the say-so of an OTRS
>  volunteer.
>  This would probably pass and be fine, until we have that  enormously
> embarrasing incident (which is bound to come) where the whole thing  blow
> egg in
> our face.
>
> The fewer eyes you have on an issue, the more likely it's going to
> explode.  Creating more black boxes that few to one person ever can view
>  and
> analyze is not the answer to our "open society" experiment.  The more  open
> we
> are, the better it is for all concerned.  The more closed we are,  the more
> likely we will have rising problematic issues.
>
> Will
>
>
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