On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:41 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 August 2014 06:25, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Are you able to specify which policy or statement entitles you to the information you request? I can find no basis for it in the privacy
policy,
the Meta checkuser policy or the checkuser page on Commons. Can you also outline for your audience what harm you believe you have suffered?
Regarding policy, Russavia is claiming that the CU results were given to someone who wasnt a CU on Commons. In my experience sometimes that happens in cross-wiki investigations, but it should not be given to someone who isnt a CU anywhere, and it would be a very clear violation of CU policy for it to have been given to someone who wasnt WMF identified. It would be good if Russavia could clarify, and/or the OC could confirm, that the person who received the CU data was WMF identified at least.
I am guessing that Russavia has yet to hear how the CU on his account complies with the CU policy. There must be a valid reason to check a user. Was there a serious concern that Russavia was using alternative accounts in a prohibited manner? Was he vandalising? Hmm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Russavia/A...
By May 2014 there were certainly suspicions on en.wikipedia that Russavia was socking.
I'm guessing you mean June 2014, as the only earlier investigation was April 2013, which was a royal mess.
I havent reviewed all of the socks listed from June onwards, and havent compiled a timeline of Russavia's banned/unbanned/blocked/etc status on English Wikipedia to compare against the rulebook, but from a quick scan those accounts appear to have been doing good work, and not misusing multiple accounts.
It would be fairly understandable if the relevant authorities on en tried to gather further information. If Russavia has a problem with this he is free not to use sockpupets on the English Wikipedia.
But why is that relevant to a checkuser on Commons that is stated to have occurred 12 months earlier?
-- John Vandenberg