I was also absent during the BADSITES war, but... Anomnity is important.
--Unionhawk
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:58:08 +1000, Steve Bennett
wrote:
Is anonymity important to many Wikipedia
contributors? I had sort of
assumed we provided anonymity as a sort of courtesy, not as any real
right.
You were apparently absent during the BADSITES Wars of a couple of
years ago, where one of the principle arguments for draconian stands
against linking to so-called "attack sites", and for McCarthyite
witchhunts against anybody seen as in any way connected with them,
was that those sites were engaged in "outing" Wikipedians.