On 8/1/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/1/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
The good is that Sarah can once again contribute pseudonymously, at least until she's outed again (which could take long or short depending on how carefully she edits this time around).
So she starts over from scratch, rebuild's her reputation, makes admin again, blocks one of "them", and we're back here talking about this again.
Hopefully we'll be smarter next time not to talk about it. And hopefully she'll be smarter to not "inadvertantly reveal personal information" by adding original research to articles about which she has a conflict of interest. And merely blocking "one of them" probably wouldn't be enough anyway. If Sarah hadn't started an article on Namebase or Brandt I seriously doubt any of this would have happened.
There's more to Wikipedia than blocking people anyway. If you're someone who's really concerned about not being outed, maybe you should spend all of your time on the millions of tasks other than blocking. And laying off those topics about which we hold strong feelings is probably a good idea whether we care about being outed or not. There are what, tens of thousands of Wikipedians who go about writing an encyclopedia without drawing the ire of people on Wikipedia Review?