On Feb 13, 2008 1:34 AM, Cool Hand Luke failure.to.communicate@gmail.com wrote:
Twenty-six editors have agreed with pretty compelling evidence that Samiharris is a sock of Mantanmoreland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Mantanmoreland#O...
Meanwhile, it appears that several prominent users have suspected the real-world identity of Mantanmoreland since September. We've banned accounts for suggesting it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Stop_st...
I've expressed by disappointment elsewhere.
http://www.wikback.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2762#Po...
I hope not to say anything intemperate, but I'm seething and tired at the moment.
My only hope is that something good comes of this. Perhaps we should seriously rethink the concept of pseudonymous editing. At minimum it might be wise if all admins could view IP addresses themselves--this whole allowing-open-proxies-until-we-discover-them policy is an invitation to abuse.
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If you want a checkuser, ask for one. This is the wrong mailing list to talk about regular admins being allowed to view IP addresses, since that would be quite a massive change in the Foundation's privacy policy. While I wouldn't give you very good odds, foundation-l would be the place to discuss such a proposal.
As to open proxies, why yes, they're subject to abuse. In fact, editing itself is subject to abuse. That doesn't mean we can or should take away the "edit this page" button. We just have to accept that sometimes an abuse will occur, and deal with it as best we can.