Geni, you are now being obtuse. Sometimes we publish false crap on people, sometimes we do it all on our own, and sometimes it's because we're following a source that is publishing falsehood. When a victim tries to get a correction, the whole deck is stacked against them. Edit Wikipedia and get hit with COI. E-mail OTRS and you're dealing with a non-editorial non-authority, who might not believe who you are, and probably won't accept your own testimony as other than worthless. Even if you convince the OTRS person, he might well get reverted by someone who can't see the e-mails. Now, along comes another way of people setting the record straight, and you reject it because a) it doesn't comply with policy b) people may pay $1,000 to impersonate someone c) you choose to be cynical about their identity checking d) it doesn't make sense to you. The bottom line is that you are representative of the most cynical, irresponsible BLP attitudes on Wikipedia, and if we were serious about our responsibilities here, people with you cavalier attitude would be banned from BLPs, and BLP process, as a positive menace. Scott -----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of geni Sent: 28 March 2011 15:26 To: fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net; English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect On 28 March 2011 15:06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote: Because with buying potatoes the business model makes sense. It doesn't make sense than any celebrity prepared to pay to have mistakes corrected doesn't have far cheaper options. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l