On 12/24/05, Violet/Riga violetriga@gmail.com wrote:
According to a thread at the Wikipedia Review forum (
http://wikipediareview.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=di...)
Daniel Brandt is wishing to name every Wikipedia admin, expanding the Hivemind page (http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html) to include all such details. I think this is starting to go too far now.
I agree with Violet that this has gone too far. One admin (not someone named by Brandt) recently received a personal threat in a phone call from someone he had taken action against on Wikipedia. It shows that being named has the potential to be dangerous.
Brandt also seemed to threaten to publish someone's photograph today http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Daniel_Brandt&diff=prev&a... and has talked about people's employment prospects being affected. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Daniel_Brandt&diff=prev&a...
The other problem is that not all the personal details he's published so far are accurate. Mistaken identity can have an effect on someone's life too, whether it's the admin's or the real-life person they've been wrongly identified as.
It's hard to know what to do about it. I'd like to see a version of the page that is vaguely acceptable to Brandt protected from any editing for a few weeks until the heat has gone out of the situation. As things stand, the article's being edited constantly, leading to lots of discussion on the talk page and on other websites, which in turn leads to more editing. Maybe if people got bored and wandered off, it'd be possible to reach a more considered solution without compromising our policies. However, I know lots of people would see that as giving in to Brandt, and I respect that position too.
Sarah