On 6/15/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
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/C...
":'''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
Aside from all the other responses in this thread to this rather bizarre e-mail, I am frankly baffled as to what "political ends" I might be pursuing in this case. I don't recall "CharlotteWebb" ever expressing a political POV on anything, and, in fact, I don't recall ever interacting with him/her.
Jay.