Okey, I may have (or perhaps not) edited a page. Perhaps I have an account
on Upwork (or perhaps not). That page may have been edited because I had a
discussion with someone at Upwork (or perhaps not). I could also been
discussing editing the page at OTRS, but again, perhaps not.
How can you know that? Because I am "jeblad"? What if I am "honky
donky" on
Wikipedia? Do you really believe that because someone said people doing
paid editing should say so actually do so?
From point b on your RfC "but yet there is no
account on Wikipedia that
discloses that account", how do you plan on figuring
out which account on
those two systems are the same? To identify the culprit you must connect
two dots, and you don't have enough information about neither of them.
I am on Upwork because a big and rather well-known organization asked me to
create an account. I have even edited pages! Yay! Go figure which one, and
why! ;p (To make it easy, their initials reads W-M-F, and no it was not
about Wikipedia-editing.)
I see all the postings from people that ask for help about their wikipedia
pages. People ask for help because the failure of the wikipedia-communities
to provide sufficient help. Going after the people that help them is not a
good solution, it is (sorry) a stupid solution. If someone ask for help,
then help them!
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:22 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
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