Hoi,
Given that you have probably a lot more edits than the impersonator, you
only have to wait for Brion to roll out single login. You will get to use
this profile on the strength of having more edits. This week Brion said he
hoped to have SUL real soon now. :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3/17/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Currently, the only thing that is available to you in response is to have
the accounts blocked. On sites where usurpation is allowed, I recommend
having those accounts usurped. Unfortunately I believe that usurpations
are
only being used on the English Wikipedia. I recommend that you contact
this
person and ask him to hand the accounts over to you, in which case you can
then change the passwords and the e-mail addresses. This seems the best
course of action.
The user is not being very... nice, but I think a ban is a little over the
top. (Even though what he did was quite rude and looks purposeful.)
However, if he does it again, a ban would be a pretty good solution.
I'm sorry that you had to go through this and hope it gets solved soon. :(
(However, it looks like it can only be solved currently with "Meteoroid"s
or
"Z.E.R.O."s support.)
Cbrown1023
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Oldak Quill
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:48 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Help with impersonation
On 17/03/07, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi. I'm user Chacor on the English Wikipedia
(formerly NSLE), user NSLE
at
the French Wikipedia, and user NSLE-Chacor at
commons. However, this
morning
I was notified that user "Meteoroid" on
the English Wikipedia (now "
Z.E.R.O.")
created new "NSLE-Chacor" accounts
around wikimedia projects, like at
meta,
and at wikia, and at
mediawiki.org (that I know
of, there may be more),
clearly impersonating me. He knows what he's doing, because
"NSLE-Chacor"
is
not used anywhere else, and is used only by me
(the name comes from
"NationStates", an online nation simulation game, as well as my nations
on
that game). There is no possible way anyone would
suddenly come up with
"NLE-Chacor".
The accounts on meta and
mediawiki.org have been blocked (by Angela and
Titoxd, respectively), while the one at wikia is under investigation
pending
a response from Meteoroid. However I sense a
pattern, and there could be
more such accounts. However, Interiot's SUL username tool is lagging
right
now, so it does not return any.
I do not appreciate being impersonated like this, and it should not be
tolerated. Is there any possibility of a wikimedia-wide ban on this
character for this impersonation? I'm feeling frustrated and harassed
right
now, that this user has gone out of his way to
make me feel so
uncomfortable. He even edited my Commons userpage to say "NSLE-Chacor
elsewhere is not me", a clear sign he knows what he's doing.
My sympathies: someone used created an account with my username
(again, obviously intentional) at Welsh Wikipedia and used it to
vandalise. I'm not sure how this is going to be dealt with when SUL is
being implemented.
--
Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)
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