I would be very very wary about removing people from the list even if you have definite proof that they've committed some rather more heinous sin than using a sock. If that's an issue that should disqualify people from standing, we have to trust that the voters will have the sense to realise this. (Obviously we want to take reasonable precautions against both a user and their sock voting, but that's a different issue entirely.)
Tom
2008/9/17 Chris Wood hot20024@hotmail.com:
Further more to the conversation http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AScribblewikiLover&... is what Alison said and makes interesting reading.
From: email@mikepeel.net Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:27:33 +0100 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] ScribblewikiLove(r)
Could you provide a link to "what Alsion has said on en.wiki"?
Thanks, Mike
On 17 Sep 2008, at 09:36, Christopher Wood ((Student)) wrote:
I saw this too and was in the middle of an email to MaxSem asking why Scribblewiki was a sock. Looking through what Alsion has said on en.wiki looks like it was an unlawful checkuser block anyway. Just because someone uses the same IP doesn't make them the same user as someone else. There contribs are totally different.
C
-----Original Message----- From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Peel Sent: 17 September 2008 09:27 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] ScribblewikiLove(r)
All,
[[meta:User:MaxSem]] has removed [[meta:User:ScribblewikiLover]] from the list of board candidates, saying "rm troll". On ScribblewikiLover's talk page he says that "This user is blocked because he is a checkuser-confirmed sockpuppet of [[:en:User:Chris19910]] and had a few socks blocked on Meta."
I don't know what to say to this... Does anyone know anything more about this apparent saga? (presumably he was checkuser'd for a reason?)
Mike
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