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Problems with the first sentence
The current first sentence
- Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American philosopher; professor; and the creator of Citizendium, an expert-guided encyclopedia.
is quite misleading, and recently, reporters and others have asked me if I am a professor. I am not. In fact, "professor" usually means people who currently have the title "professor." While I have taught college both before and after getting my Ph.D., I have never held any "professor" title; I have always been "instructor" and that sort of thing. I have not taught college since 2005, anyway.
Also, the main reason that there is an article in Wikipedia about me is that I co-founded Wikipedia. So, this should be stated first--not that I am philosopher. While I do consider myself a philosopher and I have a Ph.D. in philosophy, and while I am flattered that this is mentioned first, I am sorry to say that I am not really known as a philosopher. Along those lines, I am far better known as a thinker and speaker about the Internet. You can confirm this for yourself by looking at larrysanger.org.
As to the Citizendium, I would not describe it first and foremost as "an expert-guided encyclopedia" but as an open encyclopedia project that requires real names and makes a role for experts. There are many other expert-guided encyclopedias, but CZ is actually open and collaborative in a way that most other expert-guided online encyclopedias are not. However you describe it briefly, I dislike reducing CZ's identity to the short phrase "expert-guided," simply because that description is, used by itself, actually misleading--it suggests that we're top-down and not open to the general public, which is factually wrong. --Larry Sanger (talk) 23:02, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Philosopher? Professor?
If he himself has outlined why he does not meet the criteria to be accurately labeled a philosopher and or a professor why are my attempts to edit those labels out undone and then blocked? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.132.167.157 (talk) 22:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- Once a philosopher always a philosopher! Professor is no longer in the lead. The first sentence has been improved. QuackGuru 03:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
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