http://www.RexBlog.com/2007/03/08/16641?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=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 Rex Hammock's Blog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.RexBlog.com/2007/03/08/16641/comment-page-1#comment-13816 Internet Esquire Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:37:28 +0000 http://www.rexblog.com/2007/03/08/16641/#comment-13816 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. 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.

]]> http://www.RexBlog.com/2007/03/08/16641/comment-page-1#comment-13531 Nashville is Talking » Dots and Dashes Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:23:14 +0000 http://www.rexblog.com/2007/03/08/16641/#comment-13531 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...]

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