On 6/18/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
If open proxies are bad, editors should be stopped when it is first discovered they are using them--registered editors. And, they should not be selectively revealed in political circumstances.
"In political circumstances" is a meaningless phrase attempting to somehow tie this incident to both Wikipedia policy, and to various absurd conspiracy theories. *Every* circumstance on Wikipedia is "political" when you view it through the lens of conspiracy and cabal.
Also, if this is being revealed under these circumstance, when Charlotte was never investigated for sock puppetry as a check user, what other information about other users is subject to being revealed when it is obtained by those with check user powers?
Well, I've actually quite often seen CheckUsers mention the ISP an editor is using, which is something that I, of course, have not done here. Revealing *actual* information about editors is covered by the CheckUser policy.