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

[Fred Bauder]

The inquiry does not seem to involve disclosure of identity. As to Tor proxies, their use is a continuing mystery. Perhaps the answer will reveal a legitimate non-abusive use.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Szilagyi [mailto:szilagyi at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 05:29 PM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?
>
>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
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