On 13/09/2007, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
Erm, people may prefer to be contacted directly before being listed behind their backs. Okay, so the Google ratings of the list are not that high, considering it is hidden from Google, but still... there are mirrors not hidden from Google.
"listed behind their backs"? "hidden from Google"? Um.
We're writing an encyclopedia here. Occasionally, we need to compile lists of names of people working on the project and doing this or that, in order to help the project run efficiently.
Is there some kind of problem here? Are we assuming that any list with usernames on it, no matter how trivial or banal, is now somehow a dangerous damaging thing that can't be permitted without the consent of those mentioned?
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
There are dozens of reasons why someone might not have email enabled - having left Wikipaedia, being on wikibreak, odd privacy concerns, not involved in blocking people, having offered alternative off-wiki communication, not knowing their email was disabled, etc.
My point is, you can't understand why just from looking at a list, but everyone has a reason, and that makes all the difference.