On 3/1/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Why *does* it
matter whether a pseudonym's user page says untrue things? It's
intrinsically unverifiable, after all.
My hypothesis is that it depends on whether the information influences
other people in course of our work. Even though we're supposedly all
about the content and not who adds it, we still factor in what we think
we know about the editor.
Let's take 'em at their word, then, "I've been pretty upfront about
using
disinformation"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay/Archives/52#Profiles_don.27t_mesh
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