[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee members granted checkuser tool

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Chris Jenkinson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Seeing as there hasn't been much public discussion on this (at least on
> the English-language Wikipedia) I thought it would be a good idea to let
> you all know that Raul654, Fred Bauder, Kelly Martin, The Epopt and
> Jayjg have all been granted access to the checkuser tool[1] (the tool
> which allows for checking of sockpuppets by giving access to IP
> addresses, including those of signed-in Wikipedians).
> 
> According to the CheckUser policy[2], editors approved by the
> Arbitration Committee may be granted access to the checkuser tool.
> 
> The Arbitration Committee decided who would get access to the tool on
> their private mailing list[3].
> 

Haha, that's almost as good as Howard and his cronies rushing through
the IR reform legislation while everyone was yelling "Oh noes!
Terrarists!"...

Erm, not that I doubt the arbcom...

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