On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > <<-----Original Message----- > From: Anthony <[email protected]> > To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 7:11 pm > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium > > Sure, I can. And I did. And they approved my application. > > FWIW, the application process used to be even more onerous. They required > a CV from everyone. I and many others refused to apply. Then they made it > easier, requiring only a 50 word biography. I thought that was reasonable. > > > You don't. So don't apply. No big deal.>> > > And you by your own admission above, *knew* why they were asking for that > information. However they don't state why they are asking.
"All Citizens are *required* to maintain biographies on their userpages. Why? Because we are taking real-world responsibility for our contributions and making real-world relationships with each other. A name by itself conveys little information to others. The purpose of user pages is to be helpful to the development of *Citizendium*. Therefore, authors' user pages will be regulated by the *Citizendium*'s constabulary. " http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:User_Pages (linked from the application) > That's my problem. If you are going to require information, you should > state why you are requiring it. Not simply that it's required. > If you want to know why they are requiring it, you should ask them, not bitch. > This is even more true in the case of wikis where the information is > present for... ever. I'm sure they'd be happy to delete a biography upon request. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
