Another point that it raises is that the majority of people are still on dynamic IP's. (Wikipedia probably has a higher proportion of static IP's than most websites due to the number of contributors who are staff at academic institutions. So with a not-logged in contributor on a dynamic IP, the only means of identifying the person is by asking the ISP who had that IP at that time. And most ISP's will flatly refuse to divulge that information. Under New Zealand's privacy laws I think the only grounds on which they are obliged or even allowed to release such personal information is a police investigation or as part of a civil lawsuit. A copyright enquiry simply doesn't cut it.
-- Richard Grevers Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried
...therefore, we cannot be expected to list anon users. They know perfectly well that they cannot get credit as anons, or are complete newbies, and wouldn't know that credit exists (in that case, they soon will). I knew an anon user who made many great edits on a static IP. Even as an advanced user, he didn't make a username because he didn't <em>want</em> any credit for hist work. Eventually, he created a username, I think CrusadeOnIlliteracy or something like that, so that he could move pages and upload images. (On a related note, anons should be able to do those tasks.) He still didn't want to have credit. I think that there are many anons like that, and we don't need to give them credit because they don't want it. LDan
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