[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Anthony]

On 6/16/07, 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.
>
> The policy allows for the IPs to be blocked, not the accounts that use
> them, so the blocking issue is a red herring.

By the way, while we're mentioning things that aren't in the policy,
the policy does not allow for declining of the RFA request of accounts
that use the proxies either.