Do we routinely check all Admin applicants to see if they are sock-puppets?
Should we start doing so?
----- "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
From: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@fairpoint.net To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 20:04:54 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Daily Mail article on Sam Blacketer case
The harm to our public image comes from the fact that a senior trusted user has managed to deceive Wikipedia over a number of years and our systems were inadequate to deal with this.
I hope there will be an honest debate in Wikipedia about how we can make sure this doesn't happen again. Coming not that long after the Essjay controversy, requiring trusted users to verify their identities seems like a sensible response.
Andrew
That is part of what is tricky, we do require verification of identity for those who have the oversight and checkuser tools, but he never asked for those, and so as a mere arbitrator, was never asked.
Fred
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