No privacy violation is involved because mentioning that an individual edits through proxies does not reveal anything about the person's real-life identity or location nor even link the person with other Wikipedia accounts.
It would probably be a better practice for such concerns to be raised with the editor privately before being brought up on-wiki, especially in the context of an RfA. However, it may be that this was already done.
Newyorkbrad
On 6/15/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
The inquiry does not seem to involve disclosure of identity. As to Tor proxies, their use is a continuing mystery. Perhaps the answer will reveal a legitimate non-abusive use.
Fred
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Szilagyi [mailto:szilagyi@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 05:29 PM To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?
Is it appropriate for a CheckUser to disclose on someone's RFA the
methods
of *how* they connect to edit Wikipedia? Here, Jayjg disclosed that CharlotteWeb edited from Tor previously:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/CharlotteWebb
Specifically:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/C...
":'''6''' Can you explain why you edit using TOR proxies?
[[User:Jayjg|Jayjg
]]<sup><small><font color="DarkGreen">[[User_talk:Jayjg|(talk)]]</font></small></sup> 03:04,
15
June 2007 (UTC)"
How is he allowed to make such a public disclosure to sink an RFA? Any question of whether Jay's actions are inappropriate (if not a violation
of
the Foundation Privacy Policy?) are deflected by SlimVirgin.
Is Jayjg in violation of the Wikipedia Privacy Policy by disclosing this
to
affect a Requests for Adminship? He also implies he has similar data on others, yet has not acted on them. Sitting on them for the political
winds
to be right?
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