[WikiEN-l] A modest proposal

[David Gerard]

On 13/08/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 8/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13/08/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> > > OK, but barring that event (say the person had a static IP), there's
> > > pretty much a consensus that a checkuser who found out such
> > > information and never revealed it had broken checkuser policy (but not
> > > privacy policy), right?

> > I suspect it's the sort of thing that would make the other checkers
> > wonder what the hell they thought they were playing at. Do you have a
> > specific example in mind? In real life, carefully-worded theoreticals
> > are much harder to talk about than actual examples.

> I'll simplify the question, then.  Are checkusers allowed to checkuser
> a user that isn't clearly violating policy?  Is doing so a violation
> of the checkuser policy?  Is it a violation of the privacy policy?


Yes (though it depends what "clearly" is), possibly to probably and no.


- d.