On 24 Sep 2007 at 20:45:31 -0400, "Armed Blowfish"
<diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Perhaps all users should be prohibited from
contributing under or
revealing their real names on WP, to prevent this sort of thing from
happening. Those who have already done so could have their
usernames changed and their names removed from WP.
That would be a step in the entirely wrong direction. Wikipedia
makes too much of a fetish out of preserving "anonymity" as it is, at
the expense of accountability. While I wouldn't want to go as far as
Citizendium in requiring real name use all the time, the opposite
approach you're advocating, of using all fake names, is even worse.
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