[WikiEN-l] A modest proposal

[Ron Ritzman]

On 8/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> That said, there are legitimate reasons to. But before doing so, one
> should be clueful enough not to be a dick about it. That being the
> real rule.

Sockpuppeting is bad because of the importance of "consensus". An
editor who is using socks to support himself in XFDs, RFAs or is using
them to fabricate a consensus to preserve a preferred state of an
article (turning WP:OWN into consensus) is not acting in good faith.
Consensus only works if "one human, one (non)vote" is preserved.

If someone is using multiple accounts for reasons other then to
fabricate a false consensus then it might be overlooked because nobody
suspects sockpuppets unless they are supporting one another.