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BOB GARFIELD: Considering the idea that [Times reporter David] Rohde might not have come out of this alive, have you created any kind of fixed policy on circumstances like this, trying to anticipate what to do if something like this should arise again?

JIMMY WALES [Wikipedia founder]: No, we really haven't because every case is going to be somewhat different. You know, one of the interesting puzzles for me about this whole thing is when they called me and I said, yeah, okay, we'll look at it and we'll see what we can do and, yes, there's no reliable sources, so it's fine, I thought we had about three days. I thought, you know, it's already in this blog and that blog, it's such an interesting story; it's going to be picked up by the blogosphere. It's going to be all the rage, people speculating about what the hell's going on. And that didn't happen. I suspect that it would be much harder to pull this off a second time. || More "OTM" audio and transcripts.