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

[Slim Virgin]

On 6/15/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/16/07, 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
>
> That would depend on how it was being used when the information was found:
>
> "The tool is to be used to fight vandalism, to check for sockpuppet
> abuse, and to limit disruption of the project. It must be used only to
> prevent damage to one or several of Wikimedia projects."
>
> This policy would not allow a checkuser on CharlotteWebb

As Jay said on the nom, a few times when he checked out vandals and
sockpuppet accounts, and found they were editing from open proxies,
the CharlotteWebb account was another one that showed up using them
too.

Sarah