What does it mean?

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:45:49 -0400, Casey Brown wrote
> Consider this blatant canvassing! :-P (Necessary in Requests for CheckUser status because you need 2 people with at least 25 votes of support.)
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> At the time of this writing, there were two candidates for CheckUser status: SB_Johnny and JWSchmidt.  Please go vote for them (or against them) at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Candidates_for_Custodianship#Nominations_for_CheckUser.
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> Hope to see you all there! :-)
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> On 8/21/07, John Schmidt <johnwschmidt@excite.com> wrote:

> The English language Wikiversity had a great first year with only relatively minor problems from vandals. This Spring we experienced some rather nasty vandalism from persistent vandals and started discussion of CheckUser policy for Wikiversity ( http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:CheckUser_policy).
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> An editor with "CheckUser status" on a wiki can determine from which IP addresses a registered user has edited and find all the edits on the wiki from a specific IP (even when logged in). Data collected via the CheckUser feature can be used as an aid in fighting persistent vandalism of articles by people who create multiple accounts.
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> Recently there was difficulty in getting prompt CheckUser help from the meta-wiki, so this may be the time to try to get some CheckUsers for the Wikiversity project. Please participate in the community discussion at the centralized "user rights" discussion page   ( http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Candidates_for_Custodianship#Nominations_for_CheckUser)
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> -John Schmidt
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> (user JWSchmidt)
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