Jimmy Wales
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's something like if the law doesn't make sense and people are just ignoring it and that's OK because like it doesn't make sense, then you undermine respect for the rule of law.
I mean, I thought you were going to say something about six, seven.
Oh, God.
I just saw a story that's being added.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, like, assume good faith.
It's not a suicide pact, right?
You don't sort of always assume everybody's of good will, even after they've really proven that they aren't here to build an encyclopedia, but...
It's like sort of that initial thing.
Like, I mean, the simplest kind of example is you see somebody doing something wrong in Wikipedia and chances are and the evidence proves this and like long experience is like they probably just need to be helped out.
a bit, like have it explained like, oh, that's not how we do it.
Or actually, like I just reworded your sentence.
It was a little bit punchy and shouldn't be.
Or the worst would be is if you got in trouble because your footnote was not formatted correctly.
Like that would be so annoying.
It's like nobody's required to learn our formatting footnote rules before they add it.
It's like they added a link.
That's great.