Our prohibitions against "outing" of the personal information of other editors refers to on-wiki accusations and guesses. You can use that information freely with respect to private communications with administrators or the arbitration committee regarding socking and conflict of interest issues. On-wiki communications regarding conflict of interest editing is OK but should omit such personal information. If Wikipedia processes are ineffective in dealing with the problem, publication off-wiki, particularly in a peer-reviewed journal, is acceptable in my view as assuming power over an issue and information concerning it implies a responsibility to deal with it adequately. However, I hope you will attempt to use our processes before you do something that may be damaging to our public image. Please give us a chance. For one thing, if there are grounds, our checkuser crew can often ferret out sock puppets and where they originate; you would have to promptly, probably before any legal controversy is ripe or before a court, obtain a court order to get that information on your own if editing was done using an account name. A note regarding evidence that you might need in defending a possible libel action: edits containing personal identifying information may be deleted or suppressed under our policies and can be retrieved later only under the terms of a court order, so, obviously, get them before they are hidden. Fred Bauder