----- Original Message ----- From: "Casey Brown" cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board Election 2008 : fake candidature ?
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Phil Nash pn007a2145@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
I thought I recognised the name; but he claims to be active on en:wikipedia, which cannot be true. Not everyone will check this out, particularly from other wikis, and therefore this must be miselading. Notwithstanding his bona fides elsewhere, should this not be made more apparent to voters?
I think he said he had another username on enwiki that he uses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Arise_Sir_Loin_of_Beef
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
That account, too, is blocked for sockpuppetry. Do we seriously have rules that allow multiply-blocked editors to stand for election to the Foundation even though they may be in good standing elsewhere? Maybe some time ago, but this was only blocked six weeks ago.
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