[Foundation-l] Sexual harassment in Wikipedia

[Andrew Lih]

Hi Theodoranian,

Your community should determine whether to block it, but I can tell
you that in en: it would immediately be blocked without any
controversy. And it happens with much less obviously "inflammatory"
names than that one.

Here is the template used in en:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:UsernameBlock

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)


On 11/9/06, THD <theodoranian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Everyone,
>
> Yesterday, one guy registered an offensive username, "Rape XXX" (XXX is a
> female wikipedian's name in real life, but I want to kept the victim
> anonymous here) in Chinese Wikipedia, and this guy left a message on the
> female's user talk page: "You are in my sexual fantasy. Are you a virgin?" I
> was furious about this guy's action and sexual harassment speech. I have
> blocked this id forever, and I also suggested the female user to report to
> police office. I want to know is there any policy on this issue? In this
> kind of situation, will the Foundation cooperate with different countries'
> police authority, and reveal the user log record to the authority?
>
> Thanks.
>
> THD
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