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Wikipedia May Require Proof of Credentials
narramissic writes "According to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a new policy is currently under discussion by the community of users who regularly write and maintain Wikipedia that would require contributors to the site who claim certain credentials to prove they really have them. The new policy comes after one of Wikipedia's most prolific and respected editors, who went by the pseudonym 'Essjay,' was found not to be the 'tenured professor of theology' he claimed to be but a run-of-the-mill 24 year-old from Kentucky. Said Wales, 'To discover that someone had been deceiving the community for a long time really was a bit of a blow to our trust. Wikipedia is built on the idea of trusting other people and people being honest and we find that in the most part everyone is, so it was a real disappointment.'"
don't mod him down -- it's a valid joke. Slashdot is not somehow immune to the enormous amount of self-aggrandizement that goes on in the intarwebs.
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If you pretend you CmndTaco_1 because your first account is not valid you have to prove it. and if you have a account number below 1000 you have to prove to did not buy it, but really were there.
This is just a nice way of Jimbo Wales to say that his previous statement that is was just an alias was incorrect.