On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Raimond Spekking raimond.spekking@gmail.com wrote:
- Are there any points why such a transwiki (from all into all) would
be bad?
Yes. Create an account named Simetrical on whatever obscure wiki you like, make an article, import it to enwiki, and you've just framed me pretty convincingly and confusingly. Careful inspection of logs will show what happened, but it's still pretty confusing, even if it wasn't deliberate (i.e., there happen to be two different users on the wikis with the same name). Of course, all this can happen anyway, but it's limited significantly, since generally import is only enabled from relatively large wikis, and mostly from the same language. Therefore it's not unlikely that whoever you're trying to impersonate already has an account there, or someone else has an account by the same name.
I don't know if this is a great justification, but it's the one I recall being given from when I asked the same thing some time back.