On 6/11/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 11, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Sean Barrett wrote:
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I agree. And I made that decision for myself when I switched to using my real name on Wikipedia.
But that's not a decision Wikipedia has the right to make for me. It is not a government, and I am not its citizen.
But it will only make things worse, though. Brandt is neither particularly well-connected nor particularly unique in his talents, such as they are; and I have little doubt that secondary copies of the Hivemind pages exist. What you're proposing is open season on blackmailing Wikipedia -- whether to obtain deletion or (even worse!) actual changes to articles -- by anyone who can threaten to put up admins' personal information.