Talk:Pseudonymity
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[edit] To Do
- I believe this page should briefly discuss some of the proposed architectures that would establish cross-site verifiable pseudonyms, enabling reputation building while assuring anonymity.Bryan 13:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
- There should be links, at least, to pseudonymity in the law (for example, copyright law).Bryan 15:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
- Also: pseudonymity in science, pseudonymity and authority? Thinking in particular of the whole Bourbaki affair (our article on it seems to completely avoid talking about the authorship motivations)... --Fastfission 03:42, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WP:ASR
I don't want to go ahead and delete half the article, but there are several sections, here, that are huge self references to the Wikipedia project. --Q Canuck 00:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Please don't delete half the article. Or any of the article. Without seeming to be presumtious or insulting in any way, may I ask, won't you please just study it? This is actually a very good article. What you perceive as self references are, in fact, attempts to explain the unfamiliar by discussing the familiar.This is a well-known writing technique that is often employed with material that some people find technically difficult. I hope you can see this, and by the way, thanks for contributing to Wikipedia and caring about its quality!Bryan 03:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- No, I'm not saying I'm going to delete half the article. I'm saying someone knowledgeable about the subject should go through, and find a few new examples. Scanning through the article, there are only a couple of examples of pseudonymity that don't mention Wikipedia, and only the Wikipedia examples go into any great detail.
- Please don't delete half the article. Or any of the article. Without seeming to be presumtious or insulting in any way, may I ask, won't you please just study it? This is actually a very good article. What you perceive as self references are, in fact, attempts to explain the unfamiliar by discussing the familiar.This is a well-known writing technique that is often employed with material that some people find technically difficult. I hope you can see this, and by the way, thanks for contributing to Wikipedia and caring about its quality!Bryan 03:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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- I don't think it's appropriate. This article is about pseudonymity, not pseudonymity as it is acheived on Wikipedia. This topic is not limited to Wikipedia, and isn't even limited to online applications. This article could be discussing pen names used by authors, bloggers, and any number of other topics, but instead is only discussing Wikipedia.
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Agreed. There are plenty of better examples than Wikipedia. It's not really a self-reference, but it is a non-neutral point of view. — Omegatron 01:44, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References in Pop Culture
Several sci-fi authors, notably William Gibson, have written about the hidden identities in cyberspace. Should there be a section for this? — Loadmaster 22:50, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
