[Wikipedia-l] Name-calling and hair-pulling (was: Feature Proposal: Certification)

Wed Nov 6 22:22:22 UTC 2002

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 14:21, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> What's nice about Wikipedia is that noone *can* rip pages out of the books.
> They can put salt in the sugar dispenser.
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> Actually, *anyone* can rip out a page. Then the library staff have
> to (A) detect and (B) revert the rip.

A better analogy (since torn pages are not perfectly reversible) is that
people can go in and insert their own books on the shelves, as well as
stick their own propaganda and pamphlets into the books--most of the
time the additions are valuable, but sometimes they're juvenile
pornography, or inflammatory tracts, etc.

And in this library everybody is staff.

> And I don't want salt in sugar dispenser when I'm preparing cafe au lait.

Certainly.