[WikiEN-l] Re: No more outing. No more threats. This is not a joke.

Anthere anthere9 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 25 01:01:16 UTC 2004


Evening RK

May I ask you what type of personal information was displayed by user ZW 
and where ?


Robert wrote:
> User ZW must be banned immediately. I do not want to have
> to threaten legal action, but ZW has no right to post
> personal information about any Wikipedia users, whether it
> is correct or incorrect, especially in the context of a
> flame war.
> 
> In the recent past I already have received a death threat
> from EntmootsOfTrolls (verified by other members of the
> Wiki-En discussion list); I also received what some
> interpreted as a threat from John Goode, aka Mr. Natural
> Health, who explicitly stated that he knew I was Jewish,
> lived in NY, and that he was a Nazi who also lived in NY.
> The threat was clear. 
> 
> I am not willing to allow more such threats to be made.
> Wikipedia must not allow death threats, nor must it ever
> allow private personal information to be put online. 
> 
> Wikipedia Sysops must purge this article's records so that
> such personal information is permanently removed. ZW must
> be banned immediately.
> 
> I take my personal safety, and the safety of my family,
> very seriously. I do not want to have to initiate legal
> action against anyone here in order to protect myself. But
> it is now a common pattern for those people who hate me to
> try and expose me, and then threaten me. If Wikipedia
> doesn't take action to stop such outing and threats, then
> Wikipedia effectively becomes to party to them, as it
> enables them to occur without disability.
> 
> This shouldn't be controversial to any sane person. If any
> of you are here privately, then you do not want your
> private information outed, and you do not want to be
> threatened. You don't want people to out your name, then
> maybe your address?  You don't want Wikipedia to work on
> the level of threats, do you? I merely feel the same way as
> most of you.
> 
> 
> 
> Robert (RK)
> 
> 
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