Larry Sanger
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Oh, yes.
On Wikipedia, you mean?
There's a lot of pushback, yes.
the editors in great danger.
Don't you know that there has been someone who was threatened once?
And, of course, there have been people who have actually been assaulted, you know, and
I'm sorry.
That's happened to a lot of journalists, too.
Right.
I think what's important, though, here is not to make all of the editors anonymous, but make the ones anonymous who actually have a reason to be anonymous anonymous.
Perhaps, yes, yes.
I see.
There's no need for all of the leadership, especially of the English Wikipedia, to be anonymous.
And it's actually very important that somebody be able to take responsibility for what's going on because Wikipedia has become an engine of defamation sometimes.
Sure.
I think it depends on a lot of things.
Let's put it this way.
Let's suppose there were some Wikipedian who just happened to be really influential.
So the person was named, like my proposal is adopted.
And so because the person was a bureaucrat, therefore he had to reveal his name.