I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.