Why? IMO it will protect users from being impersonated.
It will allow us to more easily have taken down Fivver and Upworks accounts
that are pretending to be established Wikipedians.
How would this leak anything? People involve with paid editor are already
required to disclose the intermediaries through which they work and this
does not change that.
James
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 6:19 PM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, bad idea. Can't be done and will only lead
to stalking and
alienating users. (Or rather it can be done, but would imply leakage of
identifiable information to such a degree that it would put the involved
organizations on the front pages for weeks.)
John Erling Blad
/jeblad
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 5:40 PM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Have started a meta RfC regarding the above*
here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/
interlinking_of_accounts_involved_with_paid_editing_to_
decrease_impersonation>.*
This is to help address issues of impersonation of established
Wikipedians
by paid editors.
Further thoughts appreciated. Best
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
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