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

[Ron Ritzman]

On 6/15/07, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org> wrote:

> In this case, we're talking about a user (CharlotteWeb) who seems to
> have a long history of constructive editing, and no evidence that she
> is a vandal or a sockpuppet. The fact that sockpuppets use Tor does
> not mean that using Tor proves she is a sockpuppet. (Elementary logic
> lesson: "a implies b" does not mean that "b implies a.") In the
> absence of other evidence that CharlotteWebb is a problem user,
> therefore, Jayjg should have used discretion and raised his question
> privately rather than publicly in the RfA.

"Assume good faith" comes to mind. Before the checkuser, was there any
evidence to the contrary?