[WikiEN-l] Congrats for Jimbo

Tue Apr 25 12:00:40 UTC 2006

> Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>:
> On 4/25/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This, of course, raises the question of how exactly one must address
> > Jimbo now; "Dr. God-king"? "the good God-king Dr. Wales"? "revered
> > founder and God-king of Wikipedia, and doctor of laws Mr. Wales?"
> 
> Unfortunately, a person is not entitled to be called "doctor" if they
> only have an honourary degree. So just "God-king" for now.

That's not how [[Honorary degree]] has it (although that article makes a little 
too much use of the prescriptive "may" and "should" for my liking). Maybe
Dr Wales should use whatever style the Wikipedia article dictates at any
given moment ...

-- Matt
[[User:Matt Crypto]]

P.S. Hearty congratulations to Jimbo, of course!