I see, I was reading the statement to imply that he/she was somehow using Wikimedia
projects as a method of acquiring personally identifiable information, not as a
distribution method.
-Dan
On Jun 3, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Dan Rosenthal
<swatjester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 3, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Scott MacDonald
wrote:
Imagine if poetlister now engages in identity
theft and deception at
Wikiversity.
How precisely does one engage in identity theft in a project that does not
require the submission of identifying information?
By voluntarily submitting stolen information, of course. The fact that
Wikipedia (or Wikiversity) does not require that I provide my real name to
participate would not make it any more acceptable if I were to claim that I
was Dan Rosenthal and put pictures of you on my user page to prove it.
(You'd be correct if the project actually prohibited the submission
of identifying information, rather than merely not requiring it; but that's
not the case here.)
Kirill
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