Does that make sense though? With an account called "Starwarrior", say, there is no way of knowing who made the edit either.
Andreas
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
I thought it was just a matter of accountability. With a role account, there is no way of knowing who actually made an edit. On Apr 29, 2012 2:18 AM, "Richard Symonds" chasemewiki@gmail.com wrote:
All,
Me and a close friend were having a rather heated debate tonight on the topic of role accounts, and I am hoping you (as a community) can answer my question:
Why do we ban role accounts?
I was of the understanding that it was something to do with copyright/legal issues, but it's been a few years since I passed RfA, and I'm struggling to remember the arguments that I once remembered so well. I had a trawl through all the appropriate pages on meta and enwp, and although I could find out that role accounts *were* blocked, I couldn't see the justification behind it mentioned anywhere
I'm not disagreeing with the policy, but I was wondering if anyone knew the reasoning behind it - and why said reasoning isn't included in the policy pages?
All the best,
Chase
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