On 01/11/2007, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
It isn't the same thing at all, since it would be insisting that the socks be associated with Wikipedia editors, not the user's True Names. To be clear, I'm not in favor of this policy, but I don't see it as hypocritical.
Someone who wishes to remain anonymous pointed out that my above comment isn't correct. Suppose that the person with the main account has the user's legal name associated with that account either publicly on their userpage or simply well known and does not want a given subject associated with their legal name. It seems reasonable that if someone doesn't object to associating somethings with their legal name but does object to other things that that would be a valid privacy concern.