[Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

[David Gerard]

On 22 February 2012 03:04, Mike Godwin <mnemonic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:35 PM, George Herbert
> <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The post-facto probability of 1.0 that the researcher was in fact
>> professional, credible, and by all accounts right does not mean that a
>> priori he should automatically have been treated that way before the
>> situation was clarified.

> Should we declare that "Assume Good Faith" is now a dead letter?


It's been dead for new editors for a while. New editors are assumed to
be a problem, to be processed as quickly as possible with Twinkle or
similar in the manner of a processed cheese slice. "Assume good faith"
is what the processors then say when the newbie protests at being
treated in this manner.


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