On 8/13/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 8/13/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/08/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Please show your working when answering.
I don't even know what this means
I'm addressing this to the complainants :-)
There's clearly an expectations failure - there's something users expect which the privacy policy or other checkuser policies don't account for.
It would be good to allow for expectations without abandoning the tool (which just isn't going to happen).
So I'm asking what those expectations are, with as much detail as possible. Then we can work on something which doesn't piss people off.
One thing I expect is to know when checkuser is run against me. I expect to know about this before it happens, and I expect a chance to argue against it happening.
You may say that you expect it, but by visiting any page on Wikimedia site, you are agreeing to the privacy policy http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy and also the resolutions of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees and its relevant policies. The CheckUser policy explicitly states that "Notification to the account that is checked is permitted but is not mandatory."
But, even if this were fixed I still doubt I'd feel comfortable with
the system. I think I'd have to vote for abandoning the tool completely.
That in itself is, maybe unfortunately, probably not going to happen.
It shouldn't matter whether or not a user is a sockpuppet
of another user. Either their argument has merit or it doesn't. Either they're breaking policy or they aren't.
This may be one of the most understandable things you've ever said, but this isn't the place to bring it up. There is an official policy against sockpuppetry, and that won't be broken here.
If you really need to
stop sockpuppetry, then what you need is for the user to verify his/her identity, not to check IP addresses.
Wtf? You are upset becasue we are checking your *IP address* and instead you wish for us to find out your exact identity?!
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