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06 Dec 2005

What happens to a dream deferred?

Wikipedia will now require users to register before they can create articles, Jimmy Wales, founder of the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Web site, said Monday.

The change comes less than a week after John Seigenthaler, who was Robert Kennedy’s administrative assistant in the early 1960s, wrote an op-ed article for USA Today revealing that Wikipedia had run a biography claiming Seigenthaler had been suspected in the assassinations of the former attorney general and his brother, President Kennedy

Never understimate the power of some old rich white guy complaining about (horror of horrors) defamation of his character.

Comments

Cubes — December 06, 2005 at 13:02 · reply

My LiveJournal friends page this morning begins with FOUR of your entries, followed by the Dictionary.com word of the day feed:

http://dictionary.reference…

logorrhea: excessive talkativeness.

cwage — December 06, 2005 at 15:41 · reply

Awesome..

Doug Orleans — December 06, 2005 at 21:21 · reply

That policy change seems unrelated to the Seigenthaler thing. Obviously a registered user could still make a slanderous article, although I guess if he’s not anonymous he could be sued or something? (But I imagine you can still be pretty anonymous even if you register, not to mention you could be a non-US citizen.) And an unregistered user can still insert slanderous information into an existing article.

Johan — December 14, 2005 at 03:18 · reply

Never understimate the power of some old rich white guy complaining about (horror of horrors) defamation of his character.

What’s with this comment, Chris?

What happened to your much-vaunted idea that someone’s race doesn’t matter?

cwage — December 14, 2005 at 03:18 · reply

When have I ever said that someone’s race doesn’t matter?

Johan — December 19, 2005 at 03:51 · reply

Err…

You made a statement saying that Beethoven was purple.

Were you really suggesting that Beethoven was purple?

Or weren’t you trying to dismiss the subject of Beethoven’s race?

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