Slim Virgin wrote:
I'm not sure that would help, unless we're willing to employ
investigators to make sure people have faxed the Foundation the right ID. And knowing that Admin A is called Bill Smith in real life doesn't tell us whether he's a banned or malicious user.
Agreed.
As I see it, what we need to start doing as a minimum, is stop promoting people who've spent a few months hitting revert every few seconds. That kind of profile tells us nothing about the person, and it's too easy to build up several accounts that way.
Getting rid of the RfA question about what people are doing to revert vandals might help with this.
And we need to ditch the "it's no big deal" thing. It's not for us to decide that it's "no big deal" when hurtful material deleted from Wikipedia ends up on Wikitruth, just because the material's not about us. The existence of Wikitruth is a direct consequence of the "it's no big deal" mentality.
What they do on their website is their business.
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