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...just completely wrong," says Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder. Wales says that reports of Wikipedia's clampdown to prevent errors have themselves been in error. Wikipedia's ruling body of volunteers never decided to impose restrictions on all articles about living people. Instead, the site will adopt "flagged protection" - the new method for requiring editorial approval before changes to Wikipedia go up - for a small number of articles, most likely on a case-by-case basis. (See the 50 best websites...
...news of what turned out to be non-existing restrictions spread around the Web? Blame Wikipedia's fractured organization. Policy decisions are made by a community of volunteers, and the foundation that runs the site isn't always aware of the specific rules that the group might adopt. When told about Wales' narrower view of the new policy, Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the nonprofit, was surprised. "This is the first I've heard of it," he said in an e-mail. Indeed, even the foundation's blog reported that the restrictions would apply broadly to all entries on living...
...make people smile while they are absorbing it. If you disagreed with a Safire column, fine (I usually did); but at least it got the juices flowing. And this meant, I suspect, that many of those with political views a million miles from those of Safire - to adopt W.H. Auden on William Butler Yeats - pardoned him for writing well. They missed him when he'd gone...
...solve. It is not in Iran’s best interests to start an international conflict when the only one on their side is an Iranian public who questions its own government’s legitimacy. Rather than immediately coercing Tehran, Obama should make sure that he continues to adopt a flexible and multilateral foreign policy through negotiation, not alienation...
...more moderate but less powerful group led by Muhammad Younis, a former adviser to Saddam's executive council. Younis's group began reaching out to the Iraqi government in 2007, holding a conference to reevaluate the mistakes of the Saddam regime, reject their old Baathist ideology, and adopt more democratic policies. (See pictures of Saddam Hussein...