[WikiEN-l] Oh shit, Slashdot is an attack site!

[ElinorD]

On 8/5/07, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Re: "BTW, I think there's a slight inaccuracy in your recollection. I
> don't
> think the common argument was that she was hurting the project by
> getting outed, I think it was that the project was being hurt by the
> attempts to continue covering her identity up afterward. SlimVirgin
> herself wasn't actually involved with that as far as I'm aware."
>
> I did a bit of refactoring myself on that, and for the record SV didn't
> ask
> me to.  That was based purely upon my reading of policy and arbitration
> precedents, in which only self-disclosures of an editor's identity may be
> repeated by others onsite.  It really doesn't matter whether an attempted
> outing is accurate or not, nor how well known the information may be
> elsewhere on the Internet.  Some of the trolls tried to use this example
> as
> a wedge issue: if we accept their claims then we allow them to override
> policy and arbitration and we create a loophole of unknown size in which
> Internet harassment becomes a basis for attempted identifications onsite.
> The double bind they tried to force us into is basically a claim that the
> sysop community would undermine Wikipedia's credibility and lend credence
> to
> the conspiracy story if we followed normal procedure and continued
> deleting
> those attempted disclosures.  In my view, I just followed normal
> procedure.
> SlimVirgin didn't become a public figure because one indivdual tried to
> astroturf a single story in three very minor venues.  The comparisons they
> tried to make to the Essjay incident don't bear up to any level of
> scrutiny.
>
> -Durova


 I agree 100%, and would like to commend Durova for the calmness and
sensitivity she has shown.

Elinor