On 10 January 2012 19:05, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
As someone who does attend real life events and who
does edit under a
pseudonym, I'm rather grateful for those who've spoken up and are aware of
this issue.
It's more than one issue, of course. The whole area of outing editors is
"toxic" in the ArbCom-jargon sense: in other words the community of enWP
dumps it into the lap of a few trusties, so that _it does not have to be
discussed on a public mailing list_, amongst other things. I would question
whether anyone who has not thought through the implications should be
giving opinions on such a list. If anyone thinks that the "natural
justice" issue is trivial, or that barring individuals deemed persona grata
actually solves the outing problem rather than driving it to more covert
methods, they (frankly) have no idea what they are talking about.
In short, this is a very bad topic to have one of our typical threads
about. The Board presumably anticipated an appeal procedure, so they should
use it, and moderate this list.
Charles