On Nov 14, 2007 5:05 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/11/2007, private musings thepmaccount@gmail.com wrote:
Running one quiet responsible account and another aggressive confrontive, and uncivil, account is just not viable. That's something you might do on a MUD.
I agree that that is unacceptable, and wholly disagree that that is the case.
Your editing history, on all your several accounts, strongly suggests otherwise. Indeed, you seem to treat accounts as characters on a MUD.
Indeed. A big part of the problem we have on Wikipedia is people treating it like a game. Our rules on anonymity encourage it, and and our rules on using multiple accounts seem to make it enjoyable.
Our policies are about editors, not about usernames. Revealing that someone is using multiple accounts, so long as that doesn't expose a real world identity, is just tough luck for the game player; it doesn't hurt Wikipedia one bit.
Wikipedia is not a role playing game. Why isn't that in WP:NOT?