On 24 August 2011 23:20, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com> wrote:
1. Is it ever acceptable to purposely edit an article
when logged out
(ie, as an IP) if one has an account of long standing?
Yes.
2. If I did this IP editing, would I have [ complete /
little / no ]
protection from being traced as the source of the (perfectly sourced)
information I place in the article?
Depends on your ISP. Would make you more traceable than when logged in.
3. Provided my edits are all perfectly sourced, will
the WMF defend my
anonymity? (I do know that the WMF has a good track record here).
Maybe. Sometimes it will sometimes it won't. In practice even where it
wants to it doesn't always have enough measures in place to do so.
4. If you would advise against me pursuing this as you
feel I cannot
adequately mitigate risks to myself, perhaps you could put yourself in
an imagined similar situation: imagine you have a powerful sense that
a company is acting unjustly but that company has a hold on you. You
know that Wikipedia could reflect some of the injustice (all sourced
from WP:RELIABLE) but that you are placing yourself under threat. What
would you do to get this information into an article?
Obviously Wikipedia is not a campaigning platform. In terms of making
yourself hard to trace a fresh account with edits from an internet
cafe paid in cash and the like would be harder for lawyers to trace.
--
geni