Well, jayjg, let's put you in this situation. You have elected for your own
personal reasons not to edit with the account everyone knows you by for some
time. What those reasons are, I have no idea and no right or interest in
knowing. For all intents and purposes, you have exercised your right to
vanish. That is to be respected. But just for the sake of this example,
let's say you exercised that right to vanish because you felt there was some
risk to your personal security if you were to continue editing as "jayjg."
But you still have an abiding faith in the project, and wish to continue
participating. So you create a new account and continue to write your usual
level of fine contributions. You clean up articles. You participate in
some higher level projects, like FA or DYK. You participate in discussions
on ANI or some policy or other, you help a new user, you use wikification
and edit summaries accurately, and know how to make templates. You make an
occasional humorous or snide remark on some talk page. You tell a few
close associates of your new identity, entrusting them with this information
and asking them to keep it close to their vests because of your security
concerns. Nobody raises any concerns about the quality of your work in any
forum. In other words, you behave as a highly motivated, positive, and
valuable contributor to the project. There is absolutely no logical reason
for anyone to have concerns about your participation. It is a sad truth that
to some people in administrative roles on wikipedia, that you would look
exactly like a sleeper sock being built up for adminship. Jayjg, even you
are not immune to being mistakenly identified in this way.
Risker
On 11/27/07, jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 27, 2007 1:56 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The fact that ANY administrator believed that a pre-emptive block of a
possible sockpuppet was acceptable behaviour is the problem. It is a
systemic issue and there is absolutely no reason to believe that Durova
is
the only administrator who thought that way; in
fact, there seem to be
administrators posting in this thread who feel that such actions are
perfectly acceptable.
Name them please.
And it is this systemic issue that is causing
the
continued churning of this issue. Durova is not the problem. It is the
culture that nurtured her belief that this level of sleuthing was
beneficial
to the project.
Your claiming there is a "systemic issue" or "culture that nurtured
her belief" doesn't make it so.
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