On 5/14/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't really mind if someone impersonates me. I'm going to mind quite a bit if I try to edit some small wiki and find that I'm blocked.
The trouble for small wikis comes a known other wiki admin shocks the small wiki community with something emergent and some hours later it is revealed as impostering. I don't think it is too excessive to ask them to give information to prove their identity by linking their userpages.