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

[Joe Szilagyi]

On 6/15/07, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Based on Charlotte's reaction I should say it wasn't. Why not just block the
Tor proxies as found? It would be a non-issue then, and compliant with
policy.

Using secret information in such a public manner is not appropriate.

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