QUOTE(Ottava @ Wed 12th May 2010, 11:33am)
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QUOTE(gomi @ Wed 12th May 2010, 5:28am)
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Larry leaves out that he is this year's Reed Commencement speaker. Quite an honor.
I've never heard of the school but the Wiki page makes it seem interesting. The question is, did he get an honorary doctorate from the school (like many commencement speakers) and, if so, which subject? Something related to ethics?
I haven't looked at the article in a long while but at one time it was the target of a substantial smear campaign. I hope it hasn't, and more important won't again, fall into that state. Maybe it should be protected in anticipation of mischief around Larry's address? I usually don't comment on such internal details but I can see potential trouble here.
QUOTE(Larry Sanger @ Wed 12th May 2010, 11:01am)
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Second, as noted above the discussion of BLPs at the end of the article is flawed beyond the acceptable and you really need to publicly reply and correct the impression that the issue of BLPs has been addressed appropriately by WP. It is just the opposite of the Fox article where a claim is made by WP and the writer took the time to check whether it was true or not. I don't want to be too hard on a student publication but it really can't stand.
It's not a student publication, it's a professionally-edited alumni magazine. FWIW, I thought this was one of the very best articles about the history of Wikipedia that I've ever read, the mistakes at the end notwithstanding.
To be honest, I never followed the BLP stuff, I was very busy with other things at the time. Can you point me to a WR discussion or something else that sums it up? So, Wikipedia announced a stricter approach to BLPs, and they never followed through?
I'd be happy to put you in touch with Chris Lydgate, the editor of Reed Magazine & the author of the article. I'm sure he'll be very interested to hear about this.
Finding things around here can be a real pain in the butt.
Here is a recent thread on the matter. The problem is that Wales has so often claimed that Flagged Revisions are on there way or even have been implemented that it gets repeated in the media. FR have ran into resistance on WP very similar to the porn clean up. The burden of waiting to see their edits is too great for these entitled editors who feel that lies and defamation borne by BLPs subjects is a fair price for their continued unimpeded freedom to do whatever they want.