You have clearly not read the policy. For the record, it clearly says that protecting identity is a legitimate use for multiple accounts. Norath
Multiple accounts have legitimate uses. For example, prominent users may wish to experience Wikipedia to understand how the community functions for those new to the community. In particular, some have suggested that Jimbo should get, and edit from, a sock puppet account. Perhaps he does.
Other users employ multiple accounts to segregate their contributions for various reasons. A user making substantial contributions to an area of interest in Wikipedia might register another account to be used solely in connection with developing that area.
Users with an expertise in mathematics, for example, might not wish to associate their contributions to detailed mathematical articles with contributions to articles about less weighty subjects. Others might use different accounts in talk pages to avoid extending conflicts about a particular area of interest into communitywide political conflicts related to user identity rather than to article content. A person participating in a discussion of an article about abortion, for example, might not want to allow other participants an opportunity to extend that discussion by engaging a particular user in unrelated but philosophically motivated debate outside of that discussion.
Multiple accounts also serve to protect identity. Someone who is known to the public or within a particular circle may be identifiable based on their interests and contributions; dividing these up between different accounts might help preserve the person's anonymity.
--- Skyring skyring@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/7/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
And part of declaring the sock is saying who it is. Edits aren't anonymous on
Wikipedia and particularly not
in the project pages.
Beg pardon? Edits aren't anonymous?
Since when?
-- Pete, who can show you a long list of anonymous edits on just about any article you care to name. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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