[WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?

[Joe Szilagyi]

Is it appropriate for a CheckUser to disclose on someone's RFA the methods
of *how* they connect to edit Wikipedia? Here, Jayjg disclosed that
CharlotteWeb edited from Tor previously:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/CharlotteWebb

Specifically:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/CharlotteWebb&diff=prev&oldid=138273593

":'''6''' Can you explain why you edit using TOR proxies? [[User:Jayjg|Jayjg
]]<sup><small><font
color="DarkGreen">[[User_talk:Jayjg|(talk)]]</font></small></sup> 03:04, 15
June 2007 (UTC)"


How is he allowed to make such a public disclosure to sink an RFA? Any
question of whether Jay's actions are inappropriate (if not a violation of
the Foundation Privacy Policy?) are deflected by SlimVirgin.

Is Jayjg in violation of the Wikipedia Privacy Policy by disclosing this to
affect a Requests for Adminship? He also implies he has similar data on
others, yet has not acted on them. Sitting on them for the political winds
to be right?

Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com