Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales provides the quote of the day from an AP story about Wikipedia requiring verification of credentials by those who “cite” them: “It’s always inappropriate to try to win an argument by flashing your credentials,” Wales said, “and even more so if those credentials are inaccurate.” (This is a follow up to these previous posts: “Jimbo Wales decides faux-PhD should resign his “positions of trust†on Wikipedia” and “A Wikipedia oops? Or, a New Yorker oops?”.)
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March 8th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
[...] New policy: Credentials of Wikipedia contributors must be verified if they want to win argument by playing the ‘Oh, yea, I went to Harvard’ card [...]
March 12th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Superficially, the Essjay case was about falsified credentials; at its core, it was about an elaborate deception that Essjay rationalized as being necessary because he held positions of trust at Wikipedia. As I stated in a recent blog post - http://blog.xodp.org/2007/03/jimbo-wales-feeds-wikipedians-and.html - verifying credentials will not address the core issue of deception by Wikipedia administrators.