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.
Ec