[WikiEN-l] Reliable sources— some of these babies are ugly

[Charles Matthews]

David Gerard wrote:
> The article is basically not even wrong. And that's because they
> really don't care, and literally just made up some shit:
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/16/jimmy-wales-fox-news-is-wrong-no-shakeup/
>
> Sources of this type, even if owned by a large media company, need to
> be taken with an extra grain of salt.
>
>   
I would say the point of the Fox article is the subtext: no one rules 
the WMF, ergo they would have no way to comply with legal requirements 
such as a take-down order. NB the subtle solecism "free reign" (for 
"free rein") that turns the wiki ideal on its head, and the wholely 
misleading suggestion that Jimbo could ever "assign projects" as 
man-management (other than to employees), rather than operate as a 
"low-level administrator" does, by building small teams.

Charles