[Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

George Herbert george.herbert at gmail.com
Sun May 22 05:08:20 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Dror Kamir <dqamir at bezeqint.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found an email today from someone who still cares to keep me updated
> about what happens on the English Wikipedia's "corridors". Since my name
> is mentioned in the discussion, he thought I'd be interested in this.
> There is a user on the English language Wikipedia who calls himself
> "Supreme Deliciousness". He was blocked and warned on and off because of
> his highly political edits and constant war edits. Now he started
> stalking people, apparently I included. Admins fully cooperate with him.
> I wouldn't have brought this issue to the attention of this mailing
> list, unless I had serious suspicions that illegal or highly unethical
> actions are going on.
>
> Many people here don't like my attitude toward Wikipedia. I am not here
> to argue about that. I will have plenty of time to discuss it with
> anyone who'd like to on other occasions. I think my service to Wikimedia
> and its projects, even when I had profound disagreements about the
> policy of the organization, was good enough to give me some credit. Now
> we are talking about unethical, or possibly illegal actions that are
> talking against me and people who, for some unknown reason, are
> associated with me.
>
> Here is the link to the discussion on en-wp:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Drork
>
> The user "Supreme Deliciousness" says: "I have private information that
> I can send to admin through mail that links Drork to these IPs."
> I want to receive all such private information about me, so I could see
> whether I should file complaints to my Internet Service Provider or even
> a higher instance, as there is clearly a breach of my privacy. I think
> further checks should be made against "Supreme Deliciousness" to see
> whether he stalks other users. I also want to know why admins take this
> issue so lightly. If people dislike me - so be it, but I, and other
> people involved, are entitled to some protection against stalkers.
>
> Thank you,
> Dror K

Nobody is hacking your accounts, Dror.

You used exactly the same phrases in complaining about this as the IP
did complaining about it.

Do you assert that you are not that IP editor?


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com



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