...that article tends to belie the underlying nature of a real problem -- the lack of accountability for most of what's written or edited in Wikipedia. The "Corporate Fingerprints" bit is cute -- but what about all of the other fingerprints smeared through virtually every byte of the Wikipedia database?

The single best thing that Wikipedia could do to lend itself genuine credibility would be to require that contributers identify themselves -- by name, not by handles or childish aliases.

Weinstein shoots off an anti-anonymity screed in response to Virgil's tool. I don't find this perspective reasonable, but then Weinstein has set me off in the past with his authoritarian insistence that everyone walk around the Internet with their driver's license taped to their forehead. I think it's notable, however, that Virgil's tool has now spawned a meta-controversy.