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(a)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(a)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/…
":'''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?
Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com
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