On 18/09/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/16/07, Armed Blowfish
<diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Disclaimer: I don't really care. I would
be more interested in giving blocked or
banned users instructions for getting
pages courtesy blanked or deleted,
There is often the presumption that pages which a banned (or should I
say "terminally alienated" for some cases) user wants blanked or
deleted may contain information which would make said user's new
account(s) easier to identify in the future.
Banned... terminally alienated...
community exile... it's all the same.
1. That is irrelevant if the banned user
does not create a new account, but
simply leaves.
2. In the case of banned users who
have revealed their real (legal) name,
particularly ones whose username
is their real name, certain things written
on Wikipaedia about them may be the
equivalent of shouting ATTENTION
POTENTIAL FUTURE EMPLOYERS. DO
NOT HIRE [Banned user]. CANNOT
POSSIBLY BE AN ASSET. DO NOT HIRE.
3. In the case of banned users who are
using a long-standing pseudonym,
things written on Wikipaedia about
said user may affect their life in other
areas where he they use that
pseudonym.
4. In any case, some material on Wikipaedia
about the user may be libellous, BLP vio,
attacking, emotionally abusive, and/or
hurtful.
5. Courtesy blanking does not hide anything
from anyone except robots/search engines.
6. Many of the people doing sockpuppetry
investigations have adminship anyway,
which means access to deletion log info.
except unless
you have a lawyer there
doesn't seem to be any real procedure
for that, or at least not one that's any
better than the ED procedure.
With the exception of a handful of outlandish personal attacks from an
"uninvolved [Redacted]" I never had any difficulty getting anything
blanked or deleted. In fact a couple of pages concerning me were
blanked and/or deleted without any request on my part. At the end of
the day, I don't care.
—C.W.
I've been attacked for asking for certain
material to be blanked from WP (some of
which was even removed from WR) ... it was
really much like asking ED to blank or delete
something... the whole hey she responded
let's hurt her even more!