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

[Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)]

No privacy violation is involved because mentioning that an individual edits
through proxies does not reveal anything about the person's real-life
identity or location nor even link the person with other Wikipedia accounts.

It would probably be a better practice for such concerns to be raised with
the editor privately before being brought up on-wiki, especially in the
context of an RfA.  However, it may be that this was already done.

Newyorkbrad



On 6/15/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:

> 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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