We danced around this on checkuser-L for a week without really discussing the precise details; we are certainly not going into detail here on whether or not the request to compare user A and user B was valid. I really think it is time for Slim to put up or shut up. Ask Arbcom to review Lar's trustworthiness and judgement to use the tool, or don't, but please quit bringing it up on wiki. Smearing Lar's character when only about 6 people know the details, and those who do can't discuss it publicly, is unacceptable.
Thatcher
Message: 10 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:16:14 +0100 From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] SlimVirgin and CheckUser leaks To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: fbad4e140807191716t858fc35mde137361a43c1c59@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
2008/7/19 SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com:
There was no reason at all to check the first account(s) that Lar checked.
Your accounts? Please detail why you feel you are immune to checkuser. (I ask this while reminding all here that several admins have been caught severely sockpuppeting and then deadminned.)
I find your attitude worrying. The Ombudsman committee cannot hear the case because they don't cover checkuser misuse. And you say the ArbCom *should* not hear it.
That someone looked? Please detail why you feel you are immune to checkuser.
So there is nothing left to curb this kind of behavior, despite this person's involvement with Wikipedia Review.
I suggest you contact the Foundation with this as a reason to take it away. Let me know how that works out for you.
- d.