On Monday 12 December 2005 13:07, Jimmy Wales wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_fake_bio "He [Seigenthaler] also said he doesn't support more regulations of the Internet, but he said that he fears "Wikipedia is inviting it by its allowing irresponsible vandals to write anything they want about anybody."
*sigh* Facts about our policies on vandalism are not hard to come by. A statement like Seigenthaler's, a statement that is egregiously false, would not last long at all at Wikipedia.
Not trolling, just want to be clear: doesn't the WP architecture and policies allow "irresponsible vandals to write anything they want about anybody."? It's not condoned, counter to the norms, is eventually corrected -- sometimes immediately. I'm not getting the distinction you are drawing.