Evening RK
May I ask you what type of personal information was displayed by user ZW and where ?
Robert wrote:
User ZW must be banned immediately. I do not want to have to threaten legal action, but ZW has no right to post personal information about any Wikipedia users, whether it is correct or incorrect, especially in the context of a flame war.
In the recent past I already have received a death threat from EntmootsOfTrolls (verified by other members of the Wiki-En discussion list); I also received what some interpreted as a threat from John Goode, aka Mr. Natural Health, who explicitly stated that he knew I was Jewish, lived in NY, and that he was a Nazi who also lived in NY. The threat was clear.
I am not willing to allow more such threats to be made. Wikipedia must not allow death threats, nor must it ever allow private personal information to be put online.
Wikipedia Sysops must purge this article's records so that such personal information is permanently removed. ZW must be banned immediately.
I take my personal safety, and the safety of my family, very seriously. I do not want to have to initiate legal action against anyone here in order to protect myself. But it is now a common pattern for those people who hate me to try and expose me, and then threaten me. If Wikipedia doesn't take action to stop such outing and threats, then Wikipedia effectively becomes to party to them, as it enables them to occur without disability.
This shouldn't be controversial to any sane person. If any of you are here privately, then you do not want your private information outed, and you do not want to be threatened. You don't want people to out your name, then maybe your address? You don't want Wikipedia to work on the level of threats, do you? I merely feel the same way as most of you.
Robert (RK)
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