On 8/4/07, Raphael Wegmann <raphael(a)psi.co.at> wrote:
Jimmy Wales schrieb:
I fully support the right of the Wikipedia community to protect itself
from those kinds of lunatics by giving support to those who need to
maintain their privacy.
Have edits been oversighted to protect people's identity? Damn straight
they have.
What I fail to see: How does deleting SVs contribution history
help her in maintaining her privacy?
It seems to me, that such action rather fuels the suspicion/conspiracy
brought up by /.
He already answered this:
"Yes, information has been oversighted to protect the personal identities
of many people, both Wikipedia editors and members of the general
public. The reasons include inadvertantly revealing personal
information as well as the deliberate posting by trolls of personal
information."