[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[James Farrar]

On 17/06/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/16/07, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > SlimVirgin, you seem to have missed this question.
> >
> > Look, it's obvious. Jay did something - rightly or wrongly - and many people
> > are unhappy about how he went about it. Presumably, if CharlotteWebb was
> > first asked to explain when they first used an open proxy to edit, as you
> > claim, if no response was given the account would have been blocked for
> > using open proxies, and the matter sent to ANI, which it wasn't.
>
> I didn't say CW was first asked to explain when s/he first used an
> open proxy. I'm assuming she was first asked during the RfA.

In which case, it's reasonable to assume that she was unaware that it
might be considered a problem, and hence unreasonable to drop it on
her in RFA when the dropper knew about it some time ago.

> CW had accepted the nom; hadn't mentioned the open proxies; and people
> had started commenting. It's not clear there was time for an e-mail
> correspondence. It was up to CW to sort this out *before* accepting
> the nom.

How could she, if she was not aware of it until after accepting the nom???