On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Sam Blacketer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to report that I always believed the confusion over Jimmy Wales' > birthdate to be a covert and ingenious attempt to demonstrate to the > community the need to use the facts given in reliable sources, and not to > prefer what might be honestly expressed views but which are not supported by > reliable sources.
I don't know about ingenious. Anyone who knows Wales and his predilection for making misleading statements which are nonetheless literally true (a la a hero/heroine in an Ayn Rand novel) would have figured out what he was doing quite readily. And then admonished for not "assuming good faith" when they pointed it out. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
