Jimbo Wales, folks
However, he also warned that “It's always inappropriate to try to win an argument by flashing your credentials, and even more so if those credentials are inaccurate.”
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy
If anything, the whole "wikipedian with fake credentials" just proved how idiotic credentials dickery is. Citing your credentials is just a way of curtailing debate. Real or not, who cares if it was learned in grad school or from reading the minutes of the 1938 jewish anti-fascists committee meeting?
If you've got the degree, surely you've also go the data. If you tell everyone you're an eastern european studies professor, but I can prove the official data reported grain yields in 1933 were lower than those in1913 in ukraine, and you say it wasn't, I win.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy
If anything, the whole "wikipedian with fake credentials" just proved how idiotic credentials dickery is. Citing your credentials is just a way of curtailing debate. Real or not, who cares if it was learned in grad school or from reading the minutes of the 1938 jewish anti-fascists committee meeting?
If you've got the degree, surely you've also go the data. If you tell everyone you're an eastern european studies professor, but I can prove the official data reported grain yields in 1933 were lower than those in1913 in ukraine, and you say it wasn't, I win.
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