On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:08 AM, SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
I agree. But he had NO reason to check Crum once he discovered that Wiktumnus was an editor who is known to him. Once he knew that, there was no reason to proceed with the check of Crum. Lar was on a fishing trip.
Lar might simply have wished to complete exonerating Crum in his own mind, in fact. Quite often I'll check everyone mentioned in a complaint even if already it looks like the accusations don't check out.
I also want to take issue with your allegation that Wikitumnus abandoned that account solely because (a) Lar checkusered it, or (b) because Lar told his wife about it. As I recall, a good part of it is that he realized that actions like that which aroused WR's suspicions were not a good idea if one wanted to keep one's previous identity a secret. Even without the checkuser, people were already wondering who Wikitumnus was and might be able to figure it out.
Unless there's more to this than I'm aware of, the only person who raised any issue with this was myself, based initially on Tumnus' arrival within two minutes as a brand new user to delete a sock template in a way that didn't check out, followed by later editing that confirmed the issue. This was never to my knowledge raised on WR, and has nothing to do with it in any way.
However, Tumnus was clearly trying to hide that they had a previous relationship with Crum and/or SV, which under the circumstances is a violation of policy. Considering this I don't think it's surprising they would stop editing when this became apparent. For that matter I hope ArbCom recognizes that editors should not start new accounts to reinvolve themselves in these types of issues as if they were uninvolved.