[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single user login

Anon Sricharoenchai anon.hui at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 05:15:19 UTC 2008


On 4/8/08, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >  4. If they can't find any final agreement, then user123 will never be
>  >  merged forever, or until they can make the agreement in anytime later.
>  >   The conflicting status will be held until they can make the
>  >  agreement.
>
>
> Basically agree, but for example, if A at aawiki argues B at bbwiki was his
>  impostor, and B denies, but actually B was in a bad faith and has a
>  sockpuppet on aawiki? Again, a third party judgment may benefit to
>  solve some situations.

Mr. A must show the evidence to sysop, that Mr. B is acting as an
impostor of Mr. A.  Then Mr. A can request sysop to rename the
impostor's account.

>
>
>  >  5. In the case that Mr. B is an inactive user that Mr. A can't even
>  >  contact to discuss for the agreement, there will be some expire time
>  >  (may be one year) that, if Mr. B not response before this expire time,
>  >  user123 of Mr. B will be forced to be renamed.
>
>
> One year sounds too long. I found an impostor in a small wiki, and it
>  was on a bad faith in my opinion. Should I then wait for one year for
>  getting this account?

Same answer as above.

>
>
>  >  5.1 There will be some mechanism to let Mr. B to leave a message that
>  >  he agree for his user to be renamed or not.
>  >  5.2 If Mr. B leave the message "not agree", he must talk to Mr. A
>  >  until they meet the same agreement.
>
>
> It works only both parties are really on a good faith. We see many bad
>  guy create impostor accounts and claim they just want to edit. Your
>  words sounds good but not practical imo.
>

Do you think that showing impostor evidence to sysop is practical or not?



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