Argument: Anonymous abuses on Wikipedia are checked by a loyal community

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Burt Helm. “Wikipedia: ‘A Work in Progress'”. Newsweek Q and A. December 14th, 2005 – “Doesn’t the anonymity open the door for easy slander and libel?
[Jimmy Whales:] I would say, in general, no. In a certain respect, when you have any kind of Web site with broad public participation — Web forums, unmoderated mailing lists, comments on blogs, blogs themselves — there’s always the potential that someone is going to write something nasty. It doesn’t mean that we’re perfect, of course, but the difference at Wikipedia is you have a community that’s empowered to do something about it.”