Daniel Arnold wrote:
So data security is very important and it should be made clear to all ckeckusers but creating yet another ombudsman creates IMHO more avoidable meta-work (= work that does not improve a wikipedia article). IMHO "CheckUser-abuse" is mainly an en.wikipedia problem and should be adressed there locally in the main line.
Arnomane
I've heard a lot of fear mongering and what I percieve to be unwarrented fears about abuses to checkuser actions. Can you give some clear examples of what have been percieved as abuses of those with checkuser privileges, at least types of problems that have happened as a matter or practice?
I know I am speaking from an apparent minority opinion on this mailing list, but I fail to see what real damage is happening from simply looking up the IP address of a user.